Sentence examples for creed based from inspiring English sources

The Deobandi creed, based in India, exalted extreme austerity and the subjugation of women.

Beginning with the Puritans, Brooks argues, America has embraced a "civic religion," a creed based on the notion of equality that has "shaped efforts at reform" and "bonded Americans together".

Comte founded the "religion of humanity", a secular creed based on the most advanced "science" of the day – phrenology.

As Reuters reports, Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, initially attracted supporters in northern Uganda's Acholiland in the late 1980s "with a creed based on a mix of mysticism and apocalyptic Christianity.

And now comes Michael Fassbender in Assassin's Creed, based on the hugely popular video game in which players go on missions to take down targets in various exotic locations throughout history, – the first image for which has just hit the web.

Humanism and religion are totally different things, says Grayling, by virtue of the fact that the latter implies a creed based on the existence of supernatural entities acting in this world, and the former is merely a "general outlook" which proceeds from two, and only two, basic principles – no god(s) and an ethics that is based in the world and on human nature.

Even text-based creeds, based on one-off divine revelation, can be quite flexible in reacting to new economic circumstances.

Their creed is based on the Kuznets curve, the graph that appears to show that inequality automatically declines as capitalism advances, spreading wealth from the elite to the rest.

Militants of all colour and creed were based here.

Their creed was based on an idiosyncratic Afrikaner reading of the Bible, with the Boer community cast in the role of the Chosen People.

For some time, scholars thought that the original Nicene Creed was based on this statement of Eusebius.