Sentence examples for for a deity from inspiring English sources

For a deity, Emperor Hirohito had relatively little power.

A fellow Mets blogger, Greg Prince, writing on Thursday, likened Mr. Brand's relationship to the team to what most people reserve for a deity.

In a significant find, Professor Greenewalt also uncovered jugs containing the skeletons of puppies, apparently prepared as ritual meals for a deity.

In modern Japan an alternative name for the Shintō priest is kannushi, which traditionally referred only to a head priest who, through the observance of purificatory practices, had become qualified to serve as a medium for a deity.

First, although an obstacle to including self-reflection as worship is the basic definition that worship is "reverence and adoration for a deity", an extended definition includes a "great admiration or devotion shown towards a person or principle".

It was this crook's ability to pass for a deity that allowed his fraud to escape scrutiny not just from his victims but from the S.E.C. and the "money managers" who pimped his wares.

In Belize, the government sent armed guards to escort a jade head of a deity for its trip north.

A jade carving depicting the head of a deity, for example, reminded archaeologists of the kind of jewels Maya kings and queens had in their crowns.

After all, there but for the grace of a deity -- or some other director -- go I. Perhaps one of our greatest fears is to open a closet in our minds and find Tyson hulking there.

They used word games and writing exercises to subtly trigger thoughts of a deity for only some of the volunteers.

In his correspondence, Newton claimed that in writing the Principia "I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity".