Construction of domes in the Muslim world reached its peak during the 16th – 18th centuries, when the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires, ruling an area of the World compromising North Africa, the Middle East and South-and Central Asia, applied lofty domes to their religious buildings to create a sense of heavenly transcendence.

All these favours and donations of the great emperor were crowned by the construction of a lofty wall enclosing all the buildings of the university to defend the institution from any other possible attack.

: ( The people of ) Iram, possessors of lofty buildings

Lamentable to behold, in the midst of the streets lay the tops of lofty towers, tumbled to the ground, stones of high walls, holy altars, fragments of human bodies, covered with livid clots of coagulated blood, looking as if they had been squeezed together in a press ; and with no chance of being buried, save in the ruins of the houses, or in the ravening bellies of wild beasts and birds ; with reverence be it spoken for their blessed souls, if, indeed, there were many found who were carried, at that time, into the high heaven by the holy angels ...

But, though it rises in a number of lofty peaks, such as the Mont Vélan ( 3, 727 m ), the Matterhorn ( 4, 478 m ), the Lyskamm ( 4, 527 m ), the Nord End of Monte Rosa ( 4, 575 m ), and the Weissmies ( 4, 023 m ), many of the highest points of the region, such as the Grand Combin ( 4, 314 m ), the Dent Blanche ( 4, 357 m ), the Weisshorn ( 4, 505 m ), the true summit or Dufourspitze ( 4, 634 m ) of Monte Rosa itself, and the Dom ( 4, 545 m ), all rise on its northern slope and not on the main chain.

Novelist Chinua Achebe in his 1984 book The Trouble with Nigeria criticized what he called the " cargo cult mentality " of the rulers of many developing countries who issued lofty proclamations about the future of their countries but fail to exert the necessary effort to bring about those improvements.

This nature has been lost in many cottages that have been remodeled inside for year-round occupation and for an additional floor of rooms occupying the once lofty interior structures.

All the secrets of building lofty clippers had been discovered and there were too many of them in existence.

The Evening Standard concluded he was “ more of an artist than architect ,” his work spoke of his “ social dissolution .” The Nation was also critical: “… He adorned many an American mansion with irrelevant plunder .” The yellow press used lurid language to demonize White as “ a sybarite of debauchery, a man who abandoned lofty enterprises for vicious revels .”

The transition from the monumental to the purely literary character of the epigram was favoured by the exhaustion of more lofty forms of poetry, the general increase, from the general diffusion of culture, of accomplished writers and tasteful readers, but, above all, by the changed political circumstances of the times, which induced many who would otherwise have engaged in public affairs to addict themselves to literary pursuits.

In this last and lofty station, the Syrian Anachoret resisted the heat of thirty summers, and the cold of as many winters.

* Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay ( 1787 – 1835 ): Eliza appeared to many a haughty, pompous socialite, quick to remind others of her good breeding and lofty station.

A character starting with many livings will be older than other characters and will thus never achieve the lofty attribute scores a younger character could achieve.

However, many NGOs ( including Greenpeace and Amnesty International ) criticised the event for failing to live up to these lofty ideals and boycotted it as a result.

De Soto observed people living in fortified towns with lofty mounds and plazas, and surmised that many of the mounds served as foundations for priestly temples.

The church became known as the " miners ' cathedral " because of its lofty " cathedralesque " appearance and its parish in which many men worked at local pits.

However, GameSpy asked " How much slack can you give a game that in many ways manages to achieve lofty goal, but buries it under a painfully incomplete implementation ?".

It is literally the quality of being lofty or high, a term and style used, as are so many abstractions, as a style of dignity and honour, to signify exalted rank or station.

In the following years, Rome's appeals to the East were based on the unique authority of the Apostolic See and the primacy of Peter, over against the powers of councils as defended by the East ( councils, for example, had endorsed that lofty title which Rome contested ).

But those who, within the last ten years, have listened with delight, till the morning sun shone on the tapestries of the House of Lords, to the lofty and animated eloquence of Charles Earl Grey, are able to form some estimate of the powers of a race of men among whom he was not the foremost.

The Cathedral Church of the Assumption, dominating the city of Smolensk from the lofty Cathedral Hill, has been the principal church of the Smolensk bishopric for 800 years.

Her therapist at the spa, Gloria, tells her that she began over-eating to create distance between herself and Niles because she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to live up to Niles ' lofty expectations after he spent the last seven years believing she was perfect (" Daphne Returns ").

Earlier in the speech, Cicero uses his advanced age and lofty reputation as an orator to carefully defuse the usefulness of the arguments made by Atratinus, who is only seventeen years old at the time he participated in the prosecution.

According to ancient tablets discovered some years previously, Chaos and Omega have an unknown but important relationship, with Chaos described as " Omega's squire to the lofty heavens.

His career has gone from Tunroom Man, Mash, Stillman Under Manager and Distillery Manager to the lofty position of Master Distiller and Global Brand Ambassador in 35 years.

It has been entirely rebuilt during the last 14 years, and now has an elegant stone front and a lofty square tower.

Reflecting upon possible reasons for this, Skabichevsky pointed at those first years spent in Kostroma when the young Pisemsky had lost sight of whatever lofty ideals he might have been exposed to while studying in the capital.

United have a reputation as a progressive and ambitious football club with the lofty aim of gaining semi-professional status within the next 7 years.

We would have preferred, however, to have had the rest of the orchestra refrain from laughing at this and other spots on the recording, since it mars an otherwise sober, if not lofty, performance.

Such men have openly libelled him, like Dewes and Weldon, whose falsehoods were detected as soon as uttered, or have fastened upon certain ceremonious compliments and dedications, the fashion of his day, as a sample of his servility, passing over his noble letters to the Queen, his lofty contempt for the Lord Keeper Puckering, his open dealing with Sir Robert Cecil, and with others, who, powerful when he was nothing, might have blighted his opening fortunes for ever, forgetting his advocacy of the rights of the people in the face of the court, and the true and honest counsels, always given by him, in times of great difficulty, both to Elizabeth and her successor.

Although, my son, I have used the word prophet, I would not attribute to myself a title of such lofty sublimity – Preface to César, 1555 ( see caption to illustration above )

The concealed Asmodeus tells travelers who have ventured up to King Solomon's grand lofty palace that the Seal of Solomon was thrown into the sea.

The kind of lofty and stately poetry that celebrated the achievements of these archaic aristocrats was within the reach of ' The Cean nightingale ', yet he seems to have been more at home in verses of a humbler and lighter strain, even venturing on folksiness and humour.

SPECTRE's goals in the other films it has appeared in have always been less lofty.

" I have never felt comfortable ," he explains, " except in lofty surroundings.

Karunanidhi and the DMK leaders have been criticized for their opportunistic use of thier so called lofty ideals of rationalism to favour and follow the minority appeasement policies.

Once lofty, they have been heavily weathered since the opening of the Atlantic Ocean.

Berthon did not have Rendall ’ s reputation or lofty ambitions, however, and school numbers began to decline.

Authors have portrayed him in varying ways ever since, sometimes lovable as he was originally, and sometimes extremely arrogant, and sometimes as just well-meaningly lofty.

While some have praised the movement for its role in raising the quality of life somewhat during the war with Japan, others have criticized it for its lofty goals that were out of touch with the suffering of the general populace.

However, in the West contemplatives are not considered to be necessarily well-equipped for giving a rational exposition and explanation of Christian doctrine, which is the humbler task of the theologian: the experience of contemplatives is often of a more lofty level, beyond the power of human words to express, so that " they have had to resort to metaphors, similes, and symbols to convey the inexpressible.

The decoration was created in 1950 and was awarded to any person who performed " grandiose works, remarkable deeds, exhibited bravery, or for those who have honored and served the country by lofty virtues and outstanding knowledge.

Curry and Chandler have had success in the league, but perhaps have not lived up to the lofty expectations that Krause had.