Sentence examples for higher causes from inspiring English sources

And Michael Burleigh's catalog of delusion and violence, much of it in the name of higher causes and transcendent faiths, casts the 20th century in a distinctly unflattering light.

The bell is the Angelus bell and we are in rural Ireland – in Louisburgh, near Westport, County Mayo, "a county with a unique history of people starving and mortifying themselves for higher causes and principles blistered with shrines and grottoes and prayer-houses and hermitages a bordered realm of penance and atonement".

LADBible are by no means the only ones who have attempted to weaponise laddishness for higher causes.

Its atrocities derive from a higher cause.

I'd rather art serve a higher cause".

John McCain has long been torn between wanting to succeed and serving a higher cause.

A quarter-century later, the appeals to a higher cause were gone.

Fossil fuel emissions have pushed ocean temperatures higher, causing three severe coral bleaching events since 1998.

Mr. Bergson spent much of his life upsetting others for a higher cause.

Watson and Mickelson pretend they care more about a higher cause than the drug that really drives them: winning.

"He deduces that killing a human is right in pursuit of a higher cause," she tells Grant.