Sentence examples for consecrated to a from inspiring English sources

Each level was consecrated to a special part of the service.

And yet there I stood in a temple consecrated to a pantheon that by some estimates is populated by 330 million gods, lips and eyes squeezed tight as I tried to put from my mind other assorted entities invisible to the naked eye, things that lack poetic appellations like Ardhanarishvara or Parvati, things with scary Latinate names instead: staphylococcus streptococcus and Escherichia coli.

His successor at Rochester was Ithamar, the first Englishman consecrated to a Gregorian missionary see.

"Where for years there had been purpose consecrated to an immortal principle," observed the suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt, her compatriots felt now only "a vacancy".

The procedures were as important as the goals: the S.D.S.'s local chapters and national committees were consecrated to an idea of direct, participatory democracy that meant, in practice, a lot of very long meetings.

"Because a priest is consecrated to bring a child to God.

Also in the first sentence, Lincoln's remark that the nation was "conceived in liberty" was reported in some newspapers as "consecrated to liberty," a more religious reading of the intended message, and there are those who believe that Lincoln made an impromptu alteration.

When the plague reached the village in 1352 the chapel yard was consecrated to provide a cemetery for the victims, it being "inconvenient to carry the dead all the way to Manchester".

Her worship can be performed in the house, where she is symbolised as an earthenware pitcher; she may also be worshipped outdoors in a natural, open space consecrated to her, termed a shashthitala.

I see, in short, a scene from a novel by John O'Hara, Mr. Dreiser: a convention consecrated to sex, or to its doppelgänger, Power -- a midsummer orgy, looked upon by hard-bitten reporters who would share the magnificent stories of debauchery only among themselves.

She had not been brought up in a household consecrated to the kitchen arts-her mother was a kindergarten teacher, her father a salesman-but the gods gave her what she terms "a love of good food and an abounding curiosity and restlessness".