Sentence examples for adherents from inspiring English sources

From its peak of more than half a million members in the 1950s, the WI now claims 212,000 adherents in 6,600 branches around the country, making it still the biggest women's voluntary organisation in the UK.

Japanese researchers have found that adherents to Shinrin-yoku – "forest bathing" – have lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol than study subjects who walk the same distance in a lab.

And it still knows what is best for its adherents.

Outside it, like on any other Saturday, some Nation Of Islam adherents – sombrely scowling black men in formal suits and dickie bows – were using hip hop and loudhailers to broadcast their message of racial segregation.

In 2010 the sentimental fraud who is doing so well at the box office is Sarah Palin, whose wilder Tea Party adherents scored another success over a mainstream Republican candidate in Delaware overnight.

For their part, Mr Li and some leaders of the group's Beijing cells, have been caught out trying to spread misinformation about their activities; but, as the Communist Party should understand, this is perhaps unavoidable for a group that has been forced to operate underground.More importantly, adherents insist they will continue to practise their beliefs no matter what the Chinese government does.

A Salafist preacher was recently so incensed by the group's ties to Iran that he called its adherents rafida, or rejectionists, a favourite Sunni term for insulting Iran, because Shias are said to have rejected Islam's founding caliphs.

Many of the MBL's adherents are outright libertarians who scorn the PT as "communist".

But most of their adherents belong to the Zaydi sect, a normally quietist branch of Shia Islam that is unique to Yemen and which most Sunnis regard as quaintly schismatic.In this section The world's next failed state?

America's most senior officer in Afghanistan, General John Campbell, talks up the idea that IS adherents have been clashing with the Taliban.

In a book called "Progress and Poverty", published in 1879, George argued that land-value levies should replace all other taxation, leaving labour and capital to flourish freely, and thus ending unemployment, poverty, inflation and inequality.His modern adherents rarely go that far, but land-value taxation (they prefer to call it a location fee) does have many theoretical virtues.