Example Sentences

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They refused to buy goods produced by non-Roman locals.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

“Will there be a denial of rights, freedom and privileges for non-Roman Catholics?”

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2021

Roman writers such as Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius labeled Christianity not a religio but rather a superstitio, or a "superstition," a term usually applied to non-Roman, foreign practices.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2021

The ribbon’s twists and turns even suggest the shapes of numbers and characters in non-Roman languages.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2016

Ketteler must have acquired a great deal of Roman experience and non-Roman development before he would denounce a papal decree to his country and his diocese as uncatholic.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von