Sentence examples for fides which from inspiring English sources

Dewhurst started the 2013 session needing to prove his conservative bona fides, which he did with an abortion bill.

For all its historical bona fides (which include fully digitized catalogs from half a century ago), "Art of Another Kind" cuts right through to the present.

To the snooty teen-age aesthete (like me) or the high-school-orchestra dropout (same), this was classical music with rock bona fides, which made it O.K. and, in an unexpected way, cool.

JON PARELES ALEXANDER MARKOV There's no questioning the violinist Alexander Markov's classical bona fides, which include a gold medal from the Paganini International Violin Competition in 1982 and an Avery Fisher career grant in 1987.

The numbers of Chinese being baptized on Easter Sunday appears to be growing, according to reports by Catholic organizations such as this one in 2010 on Clerical Whispers, a blog, and another report from 2008, also by Fides, which said nearly 14,000 people were baptized that year.

For instance, red-state Democrats like Joe Manchin may want to boast about their pro-gun bona fides, which will actually give them more ability to push for gun control legislation because gun owners will feel less threatened.

Assad is the official president and I travel as head of Fide, which belongs to 177 [chess] federations.

Following negotiations with FIDE, which recognized Kramnik as the "classical" world chess champion, he agreed to a unification match in 2006 with FIDE's challenger, the Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov, who had won the 2005 FIDE World Championship Tournament.

He added: "The attorney general has provided no new or convincing information or arguments on whether the massive funds were bona fide, which leads to the question whether the newly appointed attorney general is merely covering up for the prime minister".

In the 1650s, men who had belonged to Rinuccini's household, including O'Ferrall, steered Irish policy in the Roman Congregation de Propaganda Fide, which governed the Irish Church.

Chess is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee and international chess competition is sanctioned by the World Chess Federation (FIDE), which adopted the now-standard Staunton chess set in 1924 for use in all official games.