| 1 | To outsiders, the process of choosing party successors remains as opaquely Byzantine as ever. | |
| 2 | His decrees led, in part, to the Byzantine style - devoid of statuary, and unchanging in doctrine and ritual. | |
| 3 | But it has been a struggle, largely thanks to the Byzantine nature of the American system. | |
| 4 | An anonymous Byzantine master, inspired by faith, imagined the beauty of the Lord' s garden. | |
| 5 | By the 12th century, the trickle of knowledge from the Muslim and Byzantine empires had become a flood. |