7 sentences with 'genuine'
Example sentences and phrases with the word genuine and other words derived from it.
• « "Of course, you can put pifia on it if you want," says Antonio Pace, president of the Authentic Neapolitan Pizza Association, made up of 150 restaurant owners around the world who serve only genuine pizza. »
• « Rumours in the west claimed that Antony was under Cleopatra's thumb (unlikely: the two were politically astute and seem to have shared a genuine affection for each other) and was breaking with traditional Roman values, and Octavian seized on this behaviour to claim that he was the true protector of Roman morality. »
• « Under the Roman Empire genuine concessions had been made to the common people, especially the soldiers, and the only people who really lost out in the short term were the old elite patrician families, who no longer had political power independent of the emperor (though they certainly retained their wealth and status). »
• « Even the Franks, who ruled a kingdom at the other end of Europe furthest from Constantinople's reach, lived in genuine fear of a Byzantine invasion, since the treaties they had made with Constantinople were full of loopholes and could be repudiated by any emperor. »
• « While most political marriages in Byzantium, as in virtually all pre-modern societies, had nothing to do with love or even attraction, Theodora and Justinian clearly shared both genuine affection for each other and intellectual kinship. »
• « In Islam, the prophets who came before Muhammad, from Abraham and Moses to Jesus, are revered as genuine messengers of God. The distinction is that, for Muslims, Muhammad was the last prophet, bringing the "definitive version" of God's message to humanity. »
• « He sent missionaries to lands outside the kingdoms to spread Christianity, both out of a genuine desire to save souls and a pragmatic desire to see greater Church influence. »