Restorations Sentence Examples

To the careful restorations of the last named the buildings of Ravenna owe much.

Yet the restorations are so many and so obvious that our contention might be taken for proven.

The streets are as a rule arcaded, and this characteristic has been preserved in modern additions, which have on the whole been made with considerable taste, as have also the numerous restorations of medieval buildings.

Cheyne (in Critica Biblica, 1903), whose restorations resting on a dubious theory of Hebrew history have met with little approval, though his negative criticism of the text is often keen and suggestive.

The degree of accuracy in such anatomical and physiographic restorations from relatively imperfect evidence will always represent the state of the science and the degree of its approach toward being exact or complete.

Such restorations are possible because of the intimate fitness of animals and plants to their environment, and because such fitness has distinguished certain forms of life from the Cambrian to the present time; the species have altogether changed, but the laws governing the life of certain kinds of organisms have remained exactly the same for the whole period of time assigned to the duration of life; in fact, we read the conditions of the past in a mirror of adaptation, often sadly tarnished and incomplete owing to breaks in the palaeontological record, but constantly becoming more polished by discoveries which increase the understanding of life and its all-pervading relations to the non-life.

With good reason geographers have given reluctant consent to some of the bold restorations of ancient continental outlines by palaeontologists; yet some of the greatest achievements of recent science have been in this field.

All sorts of restorations of this famous monument have been proposed.

Restorations have been given by Marino Ghetaldi, by Hugo d'Omerique (Geometrical Analysis, Cadiz, 1698), and (the best) by Samuel Horsley (1770).

The desolation of the city is probably due to earthquake; and the absence of Moslem erections or restorations seems to show that the disaster took place before the Mahommedan period.

After his death restorations of Apollonius's treatise De sectione determinata and of Euclid's treatise De porismatibus were printed for private circulation in xxv.

These works of the painter's advanced age, which have suffered somewhat from restorations, show vigour superior to that of his youth, along with a more adequate treatment of the architectural perspectives.

It must, however, have been subject to the Byzantine authorities, as inscriptions testify to restorations of its walls by Byzantine officials.

It stood intact, except for very partial restorations, till A.D.

Its cathedral is one of the finest examples of the Romanesque architecture of Apulia, and has escaped damage from later restorations.

Giovanni in Toro, spoilt by restorations in the 18th century, contains a splendid pulpit in Cosmatesque work, supported on four pillars, and the crypt some 14th-century frescoes.

Owing to frequent restorations occasioned by earthquakes, it now presents an incongruous mixture of different styles.

Elaborate restorations have been undertaken, and the minor remains have been housed since 1904 in the reconstructed praetorium or headquarters.

The cathedral, a fine basilica, of the 12th (?) century, with columns and fantastic capitals of the period, originally flat-roofed and later vaulted, with 16th-century restorations, contains the tomb of Pope John XXI., and has a Gothic campanile in black and white stone.

In 1864 it was sold to the chemist Theophile Pelouze, whose wife executed extensive restorations.

Immediately on my return from Great Britain, I sent the unrestored ammeter for restoration to Vintage Restorations.

Restorations and Renewal The Second Restoration of the Spanish bourbons in 1874 brought with it a new chance to rebuild the Spanish jewel collection.

It conceals one of the most atmospheric Victorian restorations in East Anglia.

The fact is that there are so many rotting hulks out there and the number of restorations is a minute fraction of the total.

Sealant restorations are therefore counted in the calculation of the F component of the DMF index.

The house underwent painstaking restorations in 1970 in an effort to turn it into a museum.

According to a poll on an Airstream forum, 40 percent of people who have tackled airstream renovations have spent over $2,5000.00 on their restorations.

Porcelain restorations, veneers and whitening services are provided.

Nor did subsequent restorations over the years damage its Gothic glory.

In fact, most classic cars that have had complete body-off restorations have had the odometers rolled back to zero.