Custodians Sentence Examples

But to Irenaeus the term came to mean the primitive custodians of tradition derived from these, such as Papias and his contemporaries, whose traditions Papias committed to writing.

The great buildings of which they are custodians stand among literally thousands of smaller but equally precious places of worship.

He entrusted them to the care of two patricians; after 367 B.C. ten custodians were appointed, five patricians and five plebeians; subsequently (probably in the time of Sulla) their number was increased to fifteen.

The monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore is an extensive building of considerable artistic interest, enhanced by frescoes of Signorelli and Sodoma; it is now a national monument occupied by two or three monks as custodians, though it could accommodate three hundred.

The purpose of this grant is to keep the children at home with their custodians.

The monastery became a national monument and the monks were recognized as custodians.

Do current digitisation procedures meet the needs of custodians, researchers, and photographic conservators?

We are delighted to have been appointed custodians of all the archived original Sentinel drawings.

All are responsible custodians of ecologically important, acidic lowland heath.

This is normally a matter for hut custodians to deal with.

Six custodians of the realm were then appointed, including the bishop g p of Glasgow (Wishart) and the bishop of St Andrews (Frazer).

We're not the custodians of the morals of our guests, nor the taste of her lovers.

Many weights have been found in the temenos of Demeter at Cnidus, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, and in a temple of Aphrodite at Byblus (44); and the making or sale of weights may have been a business of the custodians of the temple standards.

For some time after the marriage, the young couple were controlled by the empress Elizabeth, who appointed court officials to keep a watch on their conduct; but before long these custodians themselves had become the agents of Catherine's pleasures and ambition.

The Arabs became the custodians of Indian and Greek science, whilst Europe was rent by internal dissensions.