Sentence examples for Devoted adherent from inspiring English sources

Hayashi began as a student of Buddhism but became a devoted adherent of Neo-Confucianism and a bitter opponent of Buddhism.

In total, it contains more than two hours of traditional carols, instrumentals and songs penned by Stevens himself, which even the most devoted adherent of Yuletide-themed entertainment (should such a person actually exist outside of high security hospitals) might consider to be pushing it.

The most outstanding figure of the 18th-century Jewish Enlightenment was the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729 86), a devoted adherent of traditional Judaism who turned away from the historic Jewish preoccupation with the Talmud and its literature to the intellectual world of the European Enlightenment.

They were also passionate believers in it, devoted adherents of the system that betrayed them.

One interesting aspect of the present conflict is that it largely pits Muslim against Muslim, with some fanatics in the Sunni tradition battling devoted adherents of the Shia tradition.

A novel method based on reactive magnetron sputtering and specifically devoted for the deposition of thick, adherent cubic boron nitride (c-BN) coatings on silicon substrates was developed.

"On the arrival of the steamer Cape Fear, which was appointed to convey the remains to town, the ladies lined the wharf, closing round and receiving into their midst the lifeless form of her who had been so zealous, so devoted, and so self-sacrificing an adherent of the cause dearest to all their hearts.

(Early on, he was affiliated with a poetic movement — called the Movement — devoted to those principles and opposed what its adherents, among them Philip Larkin and Thom Gunn, saw as the heavy, foggy legacies of Romanticism and modernism).

At the same time that Doubleday Direct is courting Christians with Crossings (which grew in a five-year period from 8,000 to one million members), the Book-of-the-Month Club is wooing New Age religion adherents with One Spirit and other clubs devoted to crafts, cooking and home decorating.

The study failed to significantly improve adherence [ 20] which may partly be attributable to the absence of direct contact with healthcare team members, as non-adherent participants are more likely to feel that insufficient time is devoted to them by their healthcare team [ 21].

In polity, they are fiercely devoted to local autonomy, yet they are also more mobilizable as groups for common declarations and actions than are adherents in most denominations.