7 sentences with 'conventional'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conventional and other words derived from it.
• « One can look for analogies ad infinitum, but there are facts that cannot be explained by conventional medicine. »
• « The important thing to bear in mind, however, is that throughout the Middle Ages many of the struggles between Christian and Muslim kingdoms, and Christian and Muslim peoples, were as often about conventional battles over power, wealth and politics as religious belief. »
• « The transformation of the French state from a conventional Renaissance-era monarchy to an absolutist monarchy began under the reign of Louis XIII, son of Henry IV (the victor of the French Wars of Religion). »
• « Louis XIII ascended the throne at the age of eight when his father was assassinated in 1610. Following conventional practice when a king was too young to rule, his mother, Marie de' Medici, took over as regent, who rules in the king's name, assisted by a brilliant French cardinal, Armand de Richelieu. »
• « Although not always considered part of the story of European imperialism, not least because the core of its empire was never conquered by European powers, it is still appropriate to examine the decline of the Ottoman Empire alongside more conventional expressions of European empire-building. »
• « This global division between communist and capitalist was only possible because of the vast might of the USSR. The threat of world war terrified every sane person on the planet, but beyond that, the threat of conventional military intervention by the Soviets was almost as threatening. »
• « New cultural struggles emerged against the backdrop not of economic uncertainty and conventional war, but of economic prosperity and the threat of nuclear war. »