Sentence examples for devout adherence from inspiring English sources
(Ironically, secularism is entirely consistent with devout adherence to Islam; but for those who believe in explicitly Islamic governance and law, the word is anathema).
In Turkey, their expressions of ethnic identity -- including, for some, a devout adherence to Islam -- rivaled the insistence by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the first ruler of the Turkish republic, on a coherent, secular national identity.
In contrast, the chart showed violence decreasing with "adherence by pious and devout" to the Bible or to the Torah.
The vertical one starts with "violent" and rises to "non-violent," and shows a steady, unbroken upward progress for the "adherence by pious and devout" to the Torah and Bible until the two simultaneously reach a pacific apex and converge somewhere around 2009, as if this were a chart mapping interfaith relations at a country club on Long Island, rather than world history.
"Do you not have rules or guidelines that will prevent this from happening?" In a training segment called "Militancy Considerations," posted on Wired's Web site, a chart correlated a steady level of violence with "adherence by pious and devout" to the Koran.
It doesn't matter how lovely your family, how honorable your work or service, how devout your faith — if you place ideological adherence or economic self interest above the moral imperative to condemn and denounce a demagogue, then you are deplorable.
While my parents were raised in religious homes -- my father in a kosher Jewish house, my mother in a devout Christian Science one -- as adults they renounced their adherence to organized religion and raised me and my sisters in a "religion free-zone".
He was devout – quite conventionally devout.
Five were devout Christians.
