Sentence examples for circle of adherents from inspiring English sources
With Mill's energy and Bentham's ideas and financial backing, Utilitarian schemes for legal, political, penal, and educational reform gained an ever wider audience and circle of adherents.
This flattering teaching, which was especially appealing after Florence's humiliation, brought a wide circle of personal adherents (the Piagnoni, or "Wailers," as their opponents called them), who enthusiastically backed Savonarola's campaigns (not in themselves untypical of revivalist movements of the age) against gambling, blasphemy, and illicit sex.
The architectural historian Megan Aldrich writes, "He founded no school ... had few adherents outside the circle of his practice ... and trained no further generation of designers".
The possibility of a Franco-American campaign against Quebec, first proposed for 1778, had a number of adherents in Congress, and was actively supported by Lafayette in Washington's circle.
And it has plenty of adherents among religious believers.
That lesson has found an army of adherents.
It has thousands of adherents and dominates the twin towns of Hildale and Colorado City, Ariz.
This is not the behaviour or belief of a tiny group of adherents.
But football is perhaps the religion with the greatest number of adherents in the world.
He brought a close circle of followers with him, and attracted many new adherents from Algeria to the Philippines in the late 1990's.
