Sentence examples for continue to succour from inspiring English sources

Everyone knows that the Inter- Services Intelligence – their leaders appear to be interchangeable with the regular army – continue to succour and guard and lead the Afghan Taliban.

Henin continues to draw succour from the memory of her mother, who died when she was young and who first brought her to Roland Garros.

By contrast, religious beliefs continue to offer many people genuine succour, and they do this, I think, as Dostoevsky realised, not because of the specific concepts they appear to enshrine - such as an afterlife or eternal judgement - but because they place the human individual in a universal context, and thereby give her life meaning.

The amateur Cameron Wilson continues to suffer a rocky start: he's +3 through 4, but may take a little succour from the fact that Pinehurst No2 is a test and a half for the professionals as well: the South Korean kyoungster Kyoung-Hoon Lee helps Wilson prop up the field at +3, having bogeyed 11 and doubled 12. 12.46pm BST There's a gaggle of big names on the way very soon.

Well, the gospels urge us to succour the poor.

Plans to succour both countries with military exercises are being speeded up.

Worst hit are the sick, the elderly and children.The woes of front-line residents have mounted as the authorities who are supposed to succour them vanish.

In the Balkans, for a start: many of the righteous followers of Islam were Albanians who felt obliged to succour Jews under their nation's code of honour.

Aquinas (1270/1917, II II, 30, 3), for example, maintains that "mercy is the heartfelt sympathy for another's distress, impelling us to succour him if we can".

As a result, Belisarius' attempts to succour the beleaguered city failed.

Yet, Vernon says, "she never lost her resolute independence of thought, and sought power not for self glory but to succour the weak of the world".