Sentence examples for ancient conviction from inspiring English sources
The narrative is shaped by this ancient conviction.
If that ancient conviction is right, and Russia is constitutionally unsuited to democracy, many of his failings are forgivable.
But most preposterous, they uncovered an ancient conviction for assaulting a policeman related to a demonstration back in 1979, claiming she had never registered it.
The ideological rigor of this idea, as absolute in its way as the ancient Soviet conviction that any entering wedge of free enterprise would lead to the destruction of the Soviet state, is as instructive as it is astonishing.
TWO ancient Russian convictions help to explain what, to many outsiders, can seem the strangely resilient popularity of President Vladimir Putin.
His huge history and biography of Puritan New England, Magnalia Christi Americana, in 1702, and his vigorous Manuductio ad Ministerium, or introduction to the ministry, in 1726, were defenses of ancient Puritan convictions.
And it seems to me such behaviour is considered blameworthy because it touches on our ancient and persistent conviction that sex in itself is bad unless domesticated by marriage or, at least, by a long-term relationship.
With a mixture of intense piety and arcane scholarship, he reflects on the Jewish origins of Christianity's dogmas and rites in a way that shows deep interest in the religion of ancient Israel yet total conviction that the older faith's true meaning is to be found only in Christ.
He returned to the Continent with a Latin copy of St .Paul's Epistles and the conviction that "ancient theology" required mastery of Greek.
By casting the rituals in stone the author confers ancient authority on her conviction that nurturing is not an inevitable consequence of parturition.
But though the scientific community has debunked these outdated convictions, the ancient rite of casting evil spirits from the possessed is alive and well across the United States, with America being home to 20percentt of the world's exorcists.
