Sentence examples for holy seat from inspiring English sources

The tense standoff, as described by clerics from both factions, is playing out among the twisting alleyways of this holy seat, a battle for the leadership of Iraq's Shiite community, which accounts for 60percentt of the country's population of about 25 million.

In punishment for "his great presumption" in having sat in the holy seat, Freyr went away filled with grief.

I'm going to write you a check, and you're going to give me what I need — a rabbi on call, High Holy Days seats, a Hebrew school for my kids.

SUNDAY worshippers at the Cathedral of the Holy Name, the seat of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago, entered the church below a white and purple funeral bunting.

As clearly stated on the Foreign Office website, diplomatic relations are not with the Vatican state but with the Holy See, the seat of governance of the Catholic church worldwide.

It was the first major theatrical film to have its premiere at The Vatican, representing what The Hollywood Reporter called 'a clear endorsement by the Holy See, the seat of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics'.

In this way, pilgrims emerged from the relative darkness of the city into the vast open space and grandeur of the Square and its surrounding buildings – a sight calculated to inspire awe in first-time visitors to the Holy See's seat of power.

That is why the person in the passenger seat screamed "holy SHIT!" when we almost drove by it in Santa Barbara, California.

From 1558 to 1918 it was an imperial city until 1806 the seat of the Holy Roman Empire and then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Father Roman is the head bell ringer at the Danilov Monastery, the working residence of the Moscow Patriarch and the seat of the Holy Synod.

Set in Vienna, which was Catholic and for centuries the seat of the Holy Roman Empire, the play is pitched between the countervailing forces of excess and restraint, license and abstinence.