Sentence examples for church settlement from inspiring English sources

His gift for compromise facilitated the church settlement in 1559; his financial sense, the recoinage in 1561.

With his assistance, these remnants of the persecuted Unitas Fratrum developed their own Moravian church settlement of Herrnhut in Saxony.

Founded in 1848 as a Scottish Free Church settlement, the town was chosen for its timber resources and potential for farm settlement.

He pushed through a presbyterian church settlement, negotiated a large loan from the City of London, and used the money to ransom the king from the Scots.

This direct and ill-advised clash with Catholic sentiment provided a base for the formation of a right-wing party devoted to the reversal of the church settlement.

The Levelers' proposals, which had much in common with the army's, called for the reform of Parliament through elections based upon a broad franchise and for a generally tolerant church settlement.

Gaglioli: the small but densely medieval town in the midst of its olive groves has a 14c church; the settlement may date back to Roman times.

But one eventually discovered that lawyers for plaintiffs could play hardball, too, inflating charges and using the news media to play on public fears and prejudices in hopes of embarrassing the church into settlements.

In the early days of the settlement, church services for the many different denominations were held in the Vereins Kirche (or society church), a two-story, octangular-structure built in the central part of Main Street.

The parish had three early centres of activity; the village around the church and the settlements of Hacton and Corbets Tey.

If the church paid the settlement, the members said, it could not afford to settle the scores of other claims of sexual abuse.