Sentence examples for Glorifying from inspiring English sources

We should always remember the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup – fondly glorifying it, misremembering how slow the net run rates actually were, perennially overrating some of the ropey touring sides who made up the numbers against Australia and the West Indies and convincing the generations below us that it was cricket nirvana because occasionally, it truly was.

Banners glorifying war criminals were openly displayed and songs raining down from the terraces included "Kill, kill, kill the Albanians" and "Burn them, burn them alive until there are none left".

On ID cards, control orders, laws on glorifying terrorism and on religious hatred, an unbeatable coalition of Lib Dems, crossbenchers influenced by the judges in their midst and Tories worried about preserving ancient freedoms comes together.

NEAR the centre of the Lanarkshire town of Airdrie there is a huge mural glorifying the victory of King William III over James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, which expunged the Catholic monarchy from Britain.

In 1815 it took just 13 days for Le Moniteur, a French newspaper, to go from demonising Napoleon to glorifying him.

It has created new crimes, such as glorifying terrorism or inciting religious hatred, that, say critics, dampen freedom of speech.

Gout was on the way to becoming the subject of a literary sub-genre all its own by the second century AD when the Greek satirist Lucian wrote two mock-tragedies, "Tragopodagra" and "Swift-of-Foot", ironically glorifying the disease and extolling its benefits.

Near the top is Nikolai Luzin, a brilliant, tortured mathematician, straddling the tsarist and Soviet eras, who was also a devout follower of the name-glorifying movement.Two scholars Jean-Michel Kantor, a French mathematician, and Loren Graham, an American philoscholars Jean-Michele this as more than a biographical detail.

As name-glorifying gathered pace in the twilight of the tsarist world, mathematicians were wrestling with the question of infinity, and with the idea of a set which had an infinite number of constituents.

Metropolitan Hilarion, the Oxford-trained prelate who heads the Russian church's external arm, has studied the name-glorifying dispute and concluded that it is still an open question who was right.

Lindsay Anderson scathingly referred to the Theatre Upstairs as "the Gaskill" and dismissed the whole fringe culture as "a self-glorifying ghetto".