8 sentences with 'financed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word financed and other words derived from it.
• « From the beginning of "official" Christianity, Constantine financed the construction of huge churches, including St. Peter's Basilica in what is now the Vatican (at the time an obscure cemetery in Rome). »
• « He financed it with the taille, the direct tax on peasants and nobles that had originally been authorised by the nobility and wealthy merchants of France during the latter part of the Hundred Years' War, and with the gabelle, the tax on salt. »
• « This led to the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), who commanded a small fleet of five ships financed by the Spanish crown and tried to find a western route to Asia in 1519. »
• « Back in Europe, financed by the incredible riches of the New World, the still newly united Spain became the greatest European power of the 16th century. »
• « It also gave Henry VIII an excuse to seize Catholic lands and wealth, especially those of the wealthy monasteries of England, which financed the crown and its subsequent military and naval development in the reign of his daughter Elizabeth. »
• « After the Council of Trent, the Church organised and financed seminaries, colleges whose express purpose was the training of new priests. »
• « After the inconclusive end of the Thirty Years' War, which Spain had largely financed, the power of the Spanish state was increasingly weakened. »
• « The lines between the upper echelons of the bourgeoisie and the bulk of the nobility were very blurred by the end of the century, as bourgeois money financed the old noble houses that still had access to the social prestige of a title. »