9 sentences with 'diversity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word diversity and other words derived from it.
• « Rome has always been a hotbed of religious diversity. While the official Roman gods were worshipped throughout the Empire, Roman elites had no objection to the worship of other deities, and indeed many Romans (both elites and commoners) enthusiastically embraced foreign religions. »
• « However, despite the bewildering diversity of beliefs among the early Christians, there were common themes, not least the emphasis that Jesus himself had placed on the spiritual needs of ordinary people, even the socially marginalised. »
• « The Habsburgs, however, found that the diversity of their domains greatly hindered their ability to develop along absolutist lines. »
• « Iraq's ethnic and religious diversity did not guarantee violent conflict, of course, but when circumstances arose that inspired conflict, violence could, and often did, result. »
• « Europeans were forced to confront the idea of cultural and racial diversity in a way that was entirely new to them (in contrast to countries like the United States, which has always been very racially diverse after the European invasions of the early modern period). »
• « A group of British Marxist scholars, many of whom were immigrants or the children of immigrants, described this phenomenon as "empire strikes back": having taken over most of the world's territory by force, Europeans were left with a legacy of racial and cultural diversity that many of them did not want. In turn, the universalist aspirations of "Western Civilisation" were challenged as never before. »
• « There is an astonishing diversity here: a starfish the size of a hand, hairy mussels, bearded arks and the delicate scaly ribs of a scallop. »
• « Despite the diversity of drugs and ethnographic groups, trance states repeat appearances such as the figures of felines, birds and reptiles, or parts of these animals. South American shamans even feel themselves transformed into jaguars. »
• « "This is the last generation of scientists who will have the opportunity to directly study the rainforest and its inhabitants in the great diversity and abundance in which they are still found," says Michael Balik of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York City Botanical Garden. »