Sentence examples for heresies from inspiring English sources

Iran's Shia clergy had been politically assertive since the 19th century, tolerating impiety in the monarch provided he resist foreign colonialism and local heresies.

Neutral diplomats may call Cuba a communist paradise, but the tactful faces of the Russian experts carry a hint of their bafflement at the soaring hopes, the sunstruck lethargy, the eager conformism and the even more eager heresies of Caribbean socialism.

In 2010 he declared that independence was out of reach and that the party should concentrate on Quebec's economic problems.Such heresies have split the separatist movement.

The expedition's pious instigator, Reverend Wilson, propounds theological theories to defy the heresies of modern science.

Far beyond the Gulf or Middle East, from western Europe to North America, Sunni agitation (often Saudi-sponsored) is intensifying against the supposed heresies contained in Shia teaching.Belgian police are investigating the firebombing of Belgium's biggest Shia mosque in March, which killed the imam.

THERE was a time, during the heyday of the Washington Consensus, in which support for capital controls was among the most repugnant of economic heresies.

For most of history an "atheist" was a man who worshipped the wrong God, not no God at all; a physical God, as imagined by Hobbes, was not really God.Hobbes's idea is one of the rarest heresies in the history of Christianity.

Compulsive reading.Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes.

But fishmongers?Tokyo's citizens once relished the heresies of their cantankerous, right-wing governor, overlooking the more poisonous stuff.

Full details of all 219 heresies for such they now are, and anybody caught spouting even one of them faces excommunication are published on his website.

Her disadvantage is that many rank-and-file members of the party hardly know her.Moreover, any Blairite effort to block Mr Livingstone will be hampered by the difficulty of finding specific Livingstonian heresies beyond a general, and unwelcome, tendency to speak his mind.