Sentence examples for devoted disciple from inspiring English sources

Things spiraled out of control as Ma Anand Sheela, Rajneesh's right-hand woman and devoted disciple, plots to secure the organization's political and fiscal dominance.

In 1934, the American artist Harry Holtzman visited Mondrian in Paris and became a devoted disciple.

SCHUMANN, a devoted disciple of Bach, was nearly obsessed with mastering techniques of counterpoint.

The president is a devoted disciple of the teachings of Saul Alinsky and a true believer in a redistribution of wealth controlled by big government.

Instead, he settled for a quiet celebration with family, his 80-year-old brother and presidential successor, Raúl, and his devoted disciple, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

He was a devoted disciple of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, and was determined to fight against the prospect of black rule.

Mr Buhari, who hails from the predominantly Islamic north, won overwhelming margins from devoted disciples there.

At least two of Sly Stone's most devoted disciples - George Clinton and Rick James - had their own battles with the demon flake.

Hōnen established his headquarters in the midst of the city of Kyōto, away from ecclesiastical establishments, and gathered together devoted disciples, including Shinran, who was to become the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land sect).

When the mystical Lebanese writer Salim Moussa Achi died in 1984 at age 75, he left an eclectic legacy of unfashionable art and devoted disciples who told tales of his miraculous powers to "cleanse" leprosy or pluck a live bird from a painting.

One of his most devoted disciples, Guilielmus Adolphus Scribonius, attacked another Ramist for departing from the teaching of the Dialectica and for criticizing Ramus.