Sentence examples for driven by zeal from inspiring English sources

Of course, adoption problems aren't limited to Christian agencies, and they don't originate with them, but some movement insiders say that evangelicals — whether driven by zeal or naïveté — have had a disproportionate impact on the international adoption system.

Even though Muslims do not share such an attitude, it is imperative they learn to keep an intellectual distance when faced with such provocations and not to let themselves be driven by zeal and fervour, which can only lead to undesirable ends.

The U.S. has in fact all along been more driven by zeal to destroy an Iranian ally than it has by visions of democracy in Syria itself.

Was he driven by puritanical zeal, fierce ambition or both?

As he freely admits, Mr. Alford is a part-time manners maven driven by the zeal of the obsessed amateur.

In 1793, driven by revolutionary zeal, they dragged the statues into Cathedral Square and beheaded them using a guillotine.

The narrator, Angel Woolsack, is the son of an itinerant minister he calls Preacher-father, a man driven by religious zeal into the punishing wilds of Missouri, young Angel in tow.

The five CD's at hand, all of Russian music, stem from a collaboration between the orchestra's veteran conductor, Mark Gorenstein, and Gene Pope 3d, a New York producer driven by a zeal to create disks that sound better than most.

But one senses a pro forma quality to that remark, which is followed by nearly 500 pages portraying Mr. Giuliani as not just a zealot, but so driven by his zeal that he is unaware of his own corruptibility.

Both before and after 9/11, he was the odd man out: a careful tactician in an administration driven by visionary zeal; a moderate and multilateralist in an administration inclined toward unilateral and pre-emptive action.

Some American officials say foreign fighters, often driven by religious zeal, have formed "tactical alliances" with former Baath Party members to carry out attacks; others say foreigers are taking over as Iraqi militants fall away.