Sentence examples for give lay from inspiring English sources
The group, based in Needham, Mass., a suburb of Boston, was founded in 2002 to give lay people a greater role in the Catholic Church.
Overall, the effect is to give lay readers the illusion that Mr Krugman's perfectly respectable personal political beliefs can somehow be derived empirically from economic theory.No such thing as a free lunchNow that he is a journalist, it is perhaps not surprising that Mr Krugman seems to have embraced the concept of the free lunch even though as an economist he should know better.
That sentiment seemed to be strong enough today that church experts, priests and lay leaders predicted that despite their relief at Cardinal Law's resignation, many parishioners will continue to support efforts to give lay people a greater voice in the church.
You could, for example, do a 30-minute Internet search and give lay people a quick overview of a new topic.
Communication forums specializing in medical or psychological recovery were established to give lay users support in navigating often confusing and frustrating medical processes and bureaucracy.
The experiences of Hull give lie to this.
He also formed his own company, National Polygraph, to give lie detector tests and root out informers.
To have preached otherwise in All Saints Episcopal Church would give lie to its label of "Christian".
These photographs, Mr. Dunlap writes, "give lie to the idea that The New York Times is not a picture newspaper".
(His awful pranks, like creating a program that allows the Harvard student body to vote publicly on who's "hotter," give lie to that notion).
Couplets that end Shakespeare's sonnets often give lie to the old saw that they are throwaway rhyming lines written solely to satisfy the requirements of the form.
