Sentence examples for driven into the wilderness from inspiring English sources

It was a place where young conservatives, driven into the wilderness by the election of Bill Clinton, went flocking.

In Fury Road, Furiosa is a former sex slave, apparently driven into the wilderness after she proves infertile.

After the high priest symbolically transferred all the sins of the Jewish people to the scapegoat, the goat destined "for Azazel" was driven into the wilderness and cast over a precipice to its death.

If that expulsion came to pass, it would be political cleavage on a grand scale, not seen since the Republican Party suffered through its schism in 1964, when the "mainstream moderates" were driven into the wilderness by the Goldwater "true believers".

The pagans are in disarray, and have been driven into the wilderness beyond the City.

A battalion led by General Zhu De was ordered to take the city of Nanchang on 1 August 1927 in what became known as the Nanchang Uprising; initially successful, they were forced into retreat after five days, marching south to Shantou, and from there being driven into the wilderness of Fujian.

The Hebrews, understood by Pharaoh as the cause of plagues that threatened to destroy his nation, were driven out into the wilderness, where they wandered for forty years.

By Song dynasty times the elephants had been driven far into the wilderness areas of southwest China (modern Yunnan), which then belonged to another nation, the kingdom of Nanzhao.

Inspired by Leviticus, it refers to the ritual of a goat being driven out into the wilderness carrying the sins of the congregation, represented by a scarlet cloth on its horns.

All of the sins of the people were placed on the goat's head, and it was driven out into the wilderness in atonement.

And there came a voice from Heaven, saying, 'Thou Art My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased.' And immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness.