8 sentences with 'intact'
Example sentences and phrases with the word intact and other words derived from it.
• « -Nerves intact," the doctor said impatiently, as he reviewed my file. What's so spectacular about it? Whenever I can save the nerve fiber bands, I do it too. We all do it. »
• « Although the pride of the Brazilians remains intact because the Coliseum did not hold the 200,000 people that can be accommodated in the Maracana, it is estimated that more than 45,000 people were able to watch the fights in the Roman stadium. An impressive Maracana for its time. »
• « That educational programme remained intact until the twentieth century, with the study of the classics a hallmark of elite education until it began to be displaced by the more specialised disciplinary studies of the modern university system that came into being near the end of the nineteenth century. »
• « A land commission set up by Tiberius Gracchus remained intact until 118 BCE, by which time it had redistributed huge tracts of land held illegally by the wealthy. »
• « The Roman capital had already been moved to Constantinople in the early 4th century, and the eastern half of the empire remained intact, albeit under constant military pressure, until 1453. »
• « While the Roman Empire in the east remained intact, with taxes going to pay for a robust army that successfully defended Roman sovereignty, Roman armies in the west were underfunded and undermanned and vulnerable. »
• « In 493, Odoacer was deposed and assassinated by another Ostrogothic king, Theodoric, but the link with Constantinople remained intact. »
• « Instead, what is clear in historical retrospect is that the first centuries of Ottoman rule had been so successful in creating a political culture centred in Constantinople that the empire remained intact regardless of what happened in Constantinople: trade flowed, local elites prospered and there was little sign of dissent in the vast expanse of Ottoman territory. »