Sentence examples for a recent prayer from inspiring English sources

Still, at a recent prayer meeting in Nkandla, Mr Zuma donned leopard skins and asked his ancestors for help in winning another term.

"It's like having your father back," said a woman who gave her name as Eternal Love during a recent prayer session in the building's second-floor temple.

In recent weeks, there has been a stepped-up security presence at the courthouse, where at a recent prayer service men with guns and uniforms formed a line around the worshipers.

(Though the spirit of rebellious philosophy was always there too, and still is: among recent prayer requests on a board in Magdalen Chapel I saw this, addressed to God: "Good luck to you!") A guided wander, then.

At a recent Friday prayer, the quiet streets around Tehran University became rallying points for clusters of conservative worshippers, many of them wearing the characteristic untucked shirts of the vast paramilitary organisation known as the baseej, which has carried out much of the thuggery against opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was reinstalled as president last month.

Erdoğan has imposed a number of measures increasing the influence of Islam in public life; as it happens, government-appointed Muslim clerics whose sermons are typically prepared by the state told their followers at a recent Friday prayer that New Year's Eve celebrations belonged to "other cultures and other worlds".

"I would like to thank the honorable police and judges and all those who worked to arrest dog lovers and to confiscate short-legged dogs in this city," thundered Gholamreza Hassani, a midranking cleric, in a recent Friday prayer sermon in the northeastern city of Urmiyeh.

As I have previously noted in discussing a recent U.S. Supreme Court prayer decision, public displays of "secular religion" that may utilize religious language to convey tradition, heritage, solemnity, or patriotism are frequently upheld by courts.

Mr. Foster said the governor's recent prayer rally in Houston was likely to turn off many Northeastern voters.

President Trump could and should have used his recent prayer breakfast remarks for reflection and appeal for unity !#missedopportunity. Trump spends part of speech at National Prayer Breakfast to talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger's ratings.

Eschewing respect for the press, his Muslim travel ban, or in his recent prayer breakfast speech declaring only "citizens can practice their beliefs without fear of hostility or a fear of violence," Trump undermines not only domestically the values that are important to American democracy but he vastly weakens the moral position of the United States and his presidency in the world.