Liberals see him as a brave and energetic reformer, religious conservatives as a brash secularist who has grown too big for his boots.
A new church was built for St. Mark, symbol of the Venetian spirit, under Doge Domenico Contarini (1043 70), an energetic defender of the religious independence of the duchy.
The two men began energetic campaigns to set up religious schools and support charities.
The letter reported that the elections' supervisors subsequently became "happy and energetic for having obtained the religious Fatwa to use any trick for changing the vote and began immediately to develop plans for it".
Each movie required rigorous training — energetic sword-fighting for the Tavernier, religious singing for the monks.
Milan Kundera and Umberto Eco published slim, slightly whimsical volumes, while Salman Rushdie's rollicking Arabian Nights-style fantasia Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights (Jonathan Cape) is an energetic return to form pitting reason against religious zeal.
Versed in theology, natural science, languages, and mathematics, he began an energetic campaign to make the conversion actual by education and publication of religious works.
Hutchinson may have criticised the established religious authorities, as did others, but she did so while cultivating an energetic following.
Tired of the endless religious monologues – all of them ostensibly different, but really exactly the same (energetic fear-mongering in place of any salient points) – I turn my attention to the 4/20 rally passing through.
I visited Forward Factory, a co-working space in Surabaya, and met Evilita Adriani, an energetic 20-year-old entrepreneur who started Ojek Syari, a business targeted at providing religious women rides on motorbikes driven by other women.
