Sentence examples for consecrated land from inspiring English sources

Contested land, he said, could become consecrated land.

The local authority argued the house, next to a cemetery, was on consecrated land and that a public footpath ran through the garden, prohibiting the sale.

"Provisions in the bill do not do enough to ensure that during and after the removal of remains they are treated in a decent and reverent manner or that they are subsequently reinterred in consecrated land", the petition says.

To most, the mere idea of acting in a less-than reverent manner when standing on such consecrated land would be impossible.

"The cross is Christian, that it was installed in a religious service on consecrated ground, which makes it a working shrine on public land in the World Trade Center, and we think the atheists who also died on 9/11, and the Muslims and the Jews, should all have their equal presence," Silverman said, according to Raw Story.

For centuries it was the only place in Rome where non-Catholics could be legally buried; the Vatican assigned it land outside the city walls, since nonbelievers could not be buried on Rome's consecrated ground.

After excavation, the skeletons will be reburied on consecrated ground.

The Athenians' justification was that the Megarians had cultivated the sacred land consecrated to Demeter and had given refuge to runaway slaves, a behavior which the Athenians considered to be impious.

"Those boys consecrated this ground with their blood," he said.

The land is consecrated not to humanity's achievements but to those of nature.

Hamas is to the Palestinians what the settlers are to Israel: it believes that the land was consecrated to Muslims by God, and is not negotiable.Divide and misruleForty years of conflict have convinced most Palestinians and Israelis that they are best off separating into two states.