Sentence examples for faith imposed from inspiring English sources

Voodoo rituals, like the pilgrimage to Souvenance, often coincide with events and people in the Catholic faith imposed upon African slaves when they came here.

Lord Marchmain Michael Gambonn) is in Venice with his mistress; Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson) is back at home and her private mortification at the failure of her marriage has redoubled the fierce, unforgiving faith imposed on her children.

Secure as he seems to be in his assimilated life — he's expecting to be made a partner soon — Amir cannot entirely shake the responsibilities that family and his former faith impose.

I was curious why people who are so outgoing and capable would choose a faith that imposed such restrictions on their lives.

The principal Islamist militia, known as Ansar Dine, or Defenders of the Faith, has imposed harsh Shariah law based on strict Islamic tenets and enforced it with public killings, stonings and amputations.

"It fails to confront the reality that a small, economically privileged group of people has sought to subvert the Christian faith and impose their new and false doctrine on the wider community of faithful believers".

The Federal Circuit requires a showing of bad faith before imposing liability on patent holders for damage done to alleged infringers.

They "are small because he wanted to express his faith without imposing it on others," Carl Van Fleet, an In-N-Out spokesman, wrote in an e-mail.

Having gone to considerable lengths to use government blackmail in order to exercise our faith and impose it on the entire populace, we've found that nothing ruins the miracle of birth quite like preparation.

Last Tuesday, the labor board issued its sixth, most far-reaching complaint against HealthBridge, charging that it had bargained in bad faith and illegally imposed the benefit cuts.

In 380 the Arians were relieved of their churches in Constantinople, and in 381 the Nicaean faith was universally imposed by a council whose canons established the authority of the metropolitan bishops over their dioceses and gave the bishop of the capital a primacy similar to that of the bishop of Rome.