Sentence examples for ancient statement from inspiring English sources

For instance, the ancient statement that Cypselus had no bodyguard ought to be given its natural meaning, which is a denial of the military factor; it ought not to be ingeniously twisted so as to imply that he did not need a bodyguard because (it is argued) he had the support of identifiable army groups.

Very often, this attitude leads them into areas that don't line up with the Nicene Creed, the ancient statement of faith of all Christians.

The United States Golf Association and the Royal and Ancient released a statement Wednesday, saying that Woods did violate the rules by playing his ball from the wrong place and that the ruling to allow him to remain in the tournament was correct.

Statement 3 (ancient earth, but God has intervened) and statement 5 (ancient earth, and evolution neither supports nor denies God) I believe are equally close to my perspective and I couldn't pick between them.

He also claimed to have found references to Hawaii in ancient Hebrew texts, a statement that encouraged the king to restore aspects of Hawaiian religion.

"Are you trying to present your own statements as ancient wisdom?" Dany says.

His late works included a Christian catechism based on the simplest and most ancient of the traditional statements of faith, the Apostles' Creed.

Although she cared passionately about justice and human dignity, no sensible person would want to live in a society of her design, in which, say, a writer could be tried and punished for making an unflattering erroneous statement about the ancient Greeks (whom she adored).

Essentially, I've asked students on the first day of each semester to complete a survey concerning their level of agreement with a number of statements (about Atlantis, ancient astronauts, King Tut's curse, and some others).

According to the disputed statements of the ancient writers and some modern scholars, in Athens Aspasia became a hetaera and probably ran a brothel.

In a doctrinal statement, Mailman wrote how ancient druidic rites of spring were a chief influence on the Black Party.  .