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Example sentences for "perpetuated"

Lexicographically close words:
perpetual; perpetuall; perpetually; perpetuam; perpetuate; perpetuates; perpetuating; perpetuation; perpetuator; perpetuators
  1. The capital has reverted to its ancient Indian name of Bogotá, and the name of Granada, perpetuated until 1861 in the name of the Republic of New Granada, was succeeded in that year by that of the present Republic of Colombia.

  2. May twenty-fifth of that year is their Fourth of July, and is perpetuated to-day in the name of the superb Avenida de Mayo in their capital city.

  3. In doing so, they retained all the characteristic features of the individualistic family and have perpetuated them, together with the spirit of enterprise and independence, undiminished to the present day.

  4. We see among them the clan-system with its dual ownership of the soil, which has been perpetuated in Ireland to the present day and has received more formal and legal recognition from the British government in its recent legislation.

  5. It has often died out in a given locality or country, it has even been forced back to its original ancestral home, but still the same type, the same species has perpetuated itself unchanged.

  6. Bonaparte's visit to the pest-stricken soldiers at Jaffa has been perpetuated in the historic canvas which is to be seen at Versailles.

  7. In 1883 the same hypothesis--that variations are perpetuated chiefly through the male line by special gemmules, and that the female is essentially conservative--was elaborated in book form under the title of The Law of Heredity.

  8. The holy wars with the infidel perpetuated the unbecoming spectacle of militant ecclesiastics among the Spaniards, to a still later period, and long after it had disappeared from the rest of civilized Europe.

  9. By the modifications then introduced, the basis was laid of the judiciary system, such as it has been perpetuated to the present age.

  10. It is or ought to be known to all men, that African slavery in the United States originated in, and is perpetuated by a social and political necessity, and that its continuance is demanded equally by the highest interests of both races.

  11. To Bacon, error had been produced and perpetuated by social influences, and truth must be discovered by social agencies organized for that purpose.

  12. Many of them originated in accident; many in class interest and bias, perpetuated by authority for this very reason--a consideration which later actuated Locke's attack upon the doctrine of innate ideas.

  13. The Emperor added, "that she departed the same day on which Sejanus had suffered as a traitor two years before, and that the same ought to be perpetuated by a public memorial.

  14. Columbanus awakened a new spirit in the French Church, he arrested the march of barbarism in southern Germany, and perpetuated the study of antiquity among his numerous disciples.

  15. In the words of an eloquent Protestant writer, "The Church was the great bulwark of order, she perpetuated justice and light, and fought the battle of civilization and freedom.

  16. As mentioned previously, nonadaptive modifications may be perpetuated where the "weeding-out" process by predation is not an influence.

  17. Statues of the victors perpetuated their fame and improved the sculptor's art.

  18. Nature, in all her forms, was imitated; and not merely Nature, but the dresses of the ancients are perpetuated in marble.

  19. I see in those fair pages something more than the results of the patient toil which perpetuated those precious truths.

  20. But the horrors of the early portion of the night were perpetuated in her dreams!

  21. Really, we English are a highly civilised people: a law-suit may be perpetuated through a dozen generations, without any delay or fault on the side of the parties interested—the whole and sole blame resting upon the Chancery Court.

  22. The early methods of building were perpetuated in these temples, and in the eighteenth century a very persistent effort was made for the revival of pure Shintō.

  23. Sackville has strutted into obscurity; and even Lyly, though his writings were once the delight of a court, and apparently perpetuated by a proverb, is now scarcely known even by name.

  24. In this way the practice of voting by States in Congress was perpetuated down to the year 1787.

  25. These things occurred just when a new system of government was introduced into the church, that was to be perpetuated through all future ages.

  26. They perpetuated the delusions of my early training, and were preparing me, not for heaven and happiness, but for Popery and its lying wonders.

  27. Had this ordinance been perpetuated in the Church, millions upon millions of the human family might have been saved from premature death.

  28. Many suppose that Christ's Church must have been perpetuated on the earth, because it is said that the gates of hell should not prevail against it.

  29. Man has been perpetuated to expiate the transgression of his first parent by hard labour.

  30. Several Assistants, whose names are not perpetuated in the Library records, are found perpetuated by the inscriptions written by successive generations on the old oak staircases which run from their studies to the galleries above.

  31. It was there found in a state and condition predicated upon the same causes by which its existence is now continued and perpetuated in Africa.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perpetuated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.