Sentence examples for for the elect from inspiring English sources
Life becomes illuminated for the elect minority by the prospect of eternal salvation or, for those without grace, shrivels under the glare of eternal fires.
The collective agricultural rite became a mystery, a salvific experience reserved for the elect (such as the Greek mystery religion of Eleusis).
If we really wish we could be Riot Clubbers ourselves, a sneaking regard for the elect is only to be expected.
The SBC evicted its theological liberals back in the 1980s; now, war has been joined between the conservatives.Calvinism emphasises that Jesus died only for the elect; Baptists believe Jesus died for everyone.
Crosby's Dickensian appetite for every kind of song obliges us to savor the validity and verve of music created not by or for the elect but for the delectation of the millions.
One of the few whom Rockefeller failed to charm was the union leader John Lawson, who caricatured the philanthropist as offering "health for China, a refuge for birds, food for the Belgians, pensions for New York widows, university training for the elect, and never a thought of a dollar for the thousands of men, women, and children who starved in Colorado".
From today to the next elections, for the elected and the non-elected, for Mopey and Dopey, Romania's 230,000 illiterate people will disappear.
We then represent the dataset by a state-by-president matrix (B=[b_{ij}]_{51times10}), where (b_{ij}=1) indicates that state i voted for the elected president in the jth election, and (b_{ij}=0) otherwise.
