Sentence examples for firmly religious from inspiring English sources

Firmly religious, he can be timid and something of a pushover.

Otherwise, Scheer is a firmly religious social conservative from the prairies.

"One does not lightly disregard the firmly held religious belief of a defendant".

"Courts have said time and again that firmly held religious beliefs don't justify discrimination based on race and sex," said James Esseks, director of the A.C.L.U.'s Lesbian Gay Bisexual and AIDS Project.

The kind of division highlighted by, say, the so-called "antiglobalization" protesters -- whose movement is, incidentally, one of the most globalized in the world -- tries to unite the underdogs of the world economy and goes firmly against religious, national or "civilizational" lines of division.

In some circles, particularly in the United States, the theory of evolution is in conflict with firmly held religious convictions (Verhey 2005; Sinatra and Nadelson 2010; Scott 2004).

"The issue has become divisive because our nation remains split on how to balance the diversity of our culture with the traditions and firmly held religious convictions," Hutchison said in a press conference Wednesday morning.

In our firmly non-religious household, he has invented God for himself, rather than having the idea thrust upon him.

As for music, it was still virtually all religious, firmly centred on the Basilica of St Mark, which already possessed not one but two organs, set in high galleries.

We have argued that humans have always sensed a transcendent spiritual world and although throughout most of history this was placed firmly within a religious framework or narrative, since the Enlightenment there have been many alternative claims and counter claims about its nature and origins.

Like all Connecticut Calvinists, Ellsworth firmly opposed slavery on religious grounds.