542 examples of urban in sentences

He was therefore the contemporary of Hildebrand, of Lanfranc, of Bérenger, of Roscelin, of Henry IV. of Germany, of William the Conqueror, of the Countess Matilda, and of Urban II.

France and Normandy acknowledged Urban.

England was undecided whether it should be Urban or Clement.

"To Pope Urban," was the reply.

At first view the matter was a small one comparatively, whether Urban was or was not the true pope.

In return, the King acknowledged the claims of Urban as pope.

In the following year Pope Urban died; and in the following year William Rufus himself was accidentally killed in the New Forest.

Leicester appealed from Guido to the pope in person; but before the ambassadors, appointed to defend his cause, could reach Rome, the pope was dead; and they found the legate himself, from whom they had appealed, seated on the papal throne, by the name of Urban IV.

OPPENHEIM 1921 CHAPTER I The Marchioness of Amesbury was giving a garden party in the spacious but somewhat urban grounds of her mansion in Kensington.

Another requirement of our twentieth-century civilization is rapid transit, either urban or inter-urban, and this is afforded by various systems of electric street railways or electric traction generally, including electric locomotives and electric automobiles.

Another requirement of our twentieth-century civilization is rapid transit, either urban or inter-urban, and this is afforded by various systems of electric street railways or electric traction generally, including electric locomotives and electric automobiles.

Under a new Pope (Urban VIII) he looked for greater liberty, and there were many in the Papal circle who were well disposed to him.

But it was a vigorous counterblow, not a decisive success; again and again the Pergamenes had to defend with arms their urban peace against the raids of the wild hordes from the eastern mountains, and the great majority of the other Greek cities probably remained in their old state of dependence.(7)

This hill had always been dear to the Romans, as the central point of urban life since the foundation of their city, through the days of the Republic and the Empire, down to the latest Middle Ages.

In general, it tends to disappear as does painted pottery in other parts of the world with the beginning of urban civilization and the invention of writing.

The rest of the town populations consisted often of urban Shang people:

By this method new cities were provided with urban, refined people and, most important, with skilled craftsmen and businessmen who assisted in building the cities and in keeping them alive.

The lord's serfs, on the other hand, tended to settle near the fields in villages of their own because, with growing urban population, the distances from the town to many of the fields became too great.

The result of the three centuries that had passed was a symbiosis between the urban aristocrats and the country-people.

The remnant of the urban population, no more than 730 in number, had to flee southward.

A half hour slipped by, a period wherein the horses walked and galloped, and walked again, ere the white man forgot, ere the instinct of companionship, the necessity of conversation, urban-fostered, gained mastery.

Chapter IV At the House on Fairlands Heights As my friend the social scientist would say; it is a phenomenon peculiar to urban life, that the social strata are more or less clearly defined geographically.

The difficulty is present even in the case of urban land when the improvements of filling, draining, and leveling have become incorporated with the site.

(e) The separate assessment of urban lands used as mere building sites and of the buildings on them.

(f) Taxation of the increase ("increment") of urban land values, periodically or on the occasion of transfer of ownership.

542 examples of  urban  in sentences