Sentence examples for dispensations from inspiring English sources

The main characters are all people on the margins: a Parsi woman holding on to what she has; lower-caste boys who are struggling with the new dispensations; a Muslim tailor.

Local communities may be given more say over what happens in specific areas and sectoral dispensations could perhaps be phased out.

First, Popes Julius II and Leo X needed funds for rebuilding St. Peter's Basilica in Rome; second, Bishop Albert of Hohenzollern, forced to buy papal dispensations in order to gain the archbishoprics of Mainz and Halberstadt, agreed to promote indulgences in his domains, half the income from which was to go to Rome, the other half to him and his bankers.

The vows of the monks are more numerous and more intensive, but the way of life enjoined on the laity was simply an abridged monastic rule allowing more dispensations and compromise.

Traces of this approach are to be found in the conception of the past developed in the 4th century by St . Augustinein his De civitate Dei (City of God) and elsewhere; it is, for example, compared on one occasion to "the great melody of some ineffable composer," its parts being "the dispensations suitable to each different period".

Similar dispensations are promised to "those who had left their homes, or been driven therefrom, or who had suffered harm" in the divine cause (3:195).

Dispensations, on the other hand, are given though reluctantly to Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox monks and nuns who want to leave their orders.

The evangelical and fundamentalist reaction that developed c. 1910 30 was premillennial and grounded in dispensationalism (the notion that God has dealt differently with humanity during various dispensations, or periods when humankind is tested regarding specific revelations of God's will).

This probably refers to the Liber concordie Novi ac Veteris Testamenti ("Book of Harmony of the New and Old Testaments"), in which Joachim worked out his philosophy of history, primarily in a pattern of "twos"—the concords between the two great dispensations (or Testaments) of history, the Old and the New.

It is those dispensations, which essentially permit a degree of departure from the constitutional guarantee that all must be treated equally under the law, that is under threat as the justices consider a case brought by a young Texan woman named Abigail Fisher, who was denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008 because, she contends, she is white and not black.

The Agreement will help bring this about by providing a framework for a new political dispensation which recognises the full and equal legitimacy of our different identities and aspirations.