Sentence examples for gained solace from inspiring English sources

The close relatives of President Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania must have gained solace from the knowledge he went to his death by firing squad comforted by the still-fresh images of his red-carpet treatment by the Queen several years before.

When people are depressed about life or the economy or whatever it happens to be, they gain solace from being able to escape at a sports event".

This gamine runaway marries too young and ends up abused and abandoned, gaining solace only from a cassette of Mr. Stubbs and his group, the Four Tops, that she plays in her mobile home.

Barnes is far from the first and will not be the last to do so, but he admits he gains solace from the knowledge that Sir Alex Ferguson needed time and patience to make things happen at Old Trafford.

Let me gain solace at castle Nijo; Fusuma and byobu in Kano and Okyo.

South Africa sought a review – desperate measures – but gained no solace.

As we remember the victims of the Shoah, we gain solace in Telford Taylor's fulfilled prophecy that the precedent of the Nuremberg Trials has become a force in international politics, law and morals.

If you have a particular religious affiliation or have in the past, this is the time to return to that stronghold in your life and gain solace from spiritual activities.

Owen, a fine example of the kind of downtrodden character at whom Pears excels, finds himself in Birmingham, exiled from the countryside he loves, but gaining some solace in his work as a gardener.

Hopefully we can gain some solace from that.

Whether these prices are justifiable will be entirely down to each customer's bank balance, but most will gain some solace from spreading the cost over a two year carrier contract.