Sentence examples for A meritorious deed from inspiring English sources

THE DUTCH IN JAVA, 1628 TO 1811 258 Captain Edward Tucker, of H.M.S. Dover, was a meritorious deed.

Building a temple, which belongs to whoever paid for it or to the community that occupies it, is believed to be a meritorious deed recommended to anyone desirous of heavenly reward.

The Perth Gazette referred to Yagan's killing as "a wild and treacherous act... it is revolting to hear this lauded as a meritorious deed".

Religious but nondogmatic birth stories (called in Sanskrit Jātaka) deal with Buddha's meritorious deeds and, like the parables of Christianity, illustrate religious truths.

5 In fact, a mortal cannot exalt himself and draw near to the gods unless he cast away the delights of wealth and bodily pleasure, and invite his soul, not by flattery, by indulging its desires, by allowing it a perverse gratification, but by exercising it in labour, in patience, in virtuous precepts and in meritorious deeds.

A year later, he won a meritorious commendation from the commissioner for infiltrating a high-end prostitution ring.

In conclusion, the Matildas pay claim is a meritorious one.

Afterr his war service, Mr. Jones was promoted to master sergeant and won a Meritorious Service Award.

Aleksandr Oleksenko: a meritorious soldier, the Soviet equivalent of an employee of the month.

It presented a meritorious compilation of the worldwide data then available on the subject.

She has been awarded a Meritorious Service Medal, a Navy Commendation Medal with three stars and a Navy Achievement Medal.