Sentence examples for altar some of from inspiring English sources

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Boys, from infants to toddlers, their upper lips sporting mustaches drawn with makeup or face paint, were brought up to the altar, some of them crying.

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It is a form utterly unsuited to conventional museum display, though the Fowler show incorporated several altars, some of them recreations of ones that already existed in Port-au-Prince.

There is no better place to find that than in "The Head Game," in which Roger Kahn, the rhapsodic author of "The Boys of Summer," spends 300 pages bowing at the altar of some 150 years of pitching gods.

Cars rumble as they discharge their small passengers; cameras zip and whirr; men and women stoop to kiss stubby infants goodbye, and remain there kneeling on the vacated gravel, as if genuflecting at the altar of some cruel god of departure.

It is part Jewish grave, part the tumultuous altar of some popular if dubious Catholic saint.

In his view, "If you concentrate on maximising value to shareholders over the short term, you put at risk the relationships that will determine your longer-term success".Yet this need not mean that the veneration of shareholder value is wrong, and should be replaced by worship at the altar of some other business deity.

The Pythagoreans used geometrical figures to illustrate their slogan that all is number thus their "triangular numbers" (n(n−1)/2), "square numbers" (n2), and "altar numbers" (n3), some of which are shown in the figure.

The image of the innocent looking little albino boy in the company of the three black Tarzans has played itself in my mind so often that, he is to me no longer a baby headed to a loving family, but a sacrifice at some altar of a cruel witchcraft ceremony.

There are those who put the importance on design, some lust for page views, some worship the altar of journalism and those that exist soley based on numbers of this new definition of the reader called users, regardless of what it looks like or what is contained within its platform, or in other words, has no point of view whatsoever, thanks to technology.

Mark Shields during a decade officiating in the NSL probably made as many errors as Williams or Breeze have in the A-League, but half of those probably weren't recorded and retained in the public eye, compiled on Youtube to be brought up again and again, piled high in some perverse altar of public humiliation.

Stela 12 was found with Altar 9 some 40 m east of Group 19 and 350 m south of the highway to Flores, in Panorama Sector.

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