Custodians Sentence Examples

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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

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