Sentence examples for a religious cause from inspiring English sources

Scheuer said money and other traditional inducements are unlikely to persuade Islamist radicals to betray a religious cause to which they are fervently committed.

The court held that that requirement went too far, because it allowed one person to determine whether something was a religious cause.

Anything that challenges the social norms of the conservative Muslim elements is turned into a religious cause: Mali's new law, for instance, was described by some of the demonstrators as "an insult to the Koran".

A follower is one who accepts a master or guide; for 800 years, the word has connoted spirituality, as in an adherent to a religious cause or a disciple of a charismatic leader.

These young men, many of whom never learn to speak Arabic, have become known to French human-rights workers as chair à canon (cannon fodder) — easily recruited zealots who are willing to fight, and die, for a religious cause about which, initially, they know little.

The inevitable result is a hatred for France and, by extension, for the West". These young men, many of whom never learn to speak Arabic, have become known to French human-rights workers as chair à canon (cannon fodder)—easily recruited zealots who are willing to fight, and die, for a religious cause about which, initially, they know little.

In its Internet-driven propaganda, Al Shabab aggressively recruited foreign fighters from the West, refashioning a formerly nationalist cause into a religious movement that carried the endorsement of Al Qaeda.

Both America and Britain have felt the sting of freelance asymmetrical war-makers not associated with a particular state but with a transnational religious cause that uses potent small arms and explosives to unravel western societies and confound their defences.

It was always known that Trump had a less sophisticated ground game than Cruz, whose intense race for the state was using a conventional playbook, focusing on building an army committed to an uncompromisingly religious cause.

Six years after ruling that the Constitution protects the right to distribute anonymous campaign literature, the Supreme Court today agreed to decide whether that right extends to anonymous door-to-door advocacy for a political or religious cause.

"The prosecution's case against this defendant is that he was travelling to Syria to train to fight in pursuit of an ideological or religious cause.