Sentence examples for holy soil from inspiring English sources
Samiul Haq says he believes that these troops are polluting holy soil.
On Fridays, the Mount is closed to the infidel, so the chance to tread holy soil isn't available.
Salafi jihadis spoke with him about a situation that angered him deeply: the presence of American troops on the holy soil of the Arabian Peninsula.
It was convenient for him to be able to point to the border incident over the tree as evidence of the need for his guerrillas to "resist Israel" and guard "Lebanon's holy soil".
The leaders issued a statement asserting that America had, in effect, declared war against God by stationing forces on the holy soil of Saudi Arabia, besieging and bombing Iraq, and supporting Israeli oppression of the Palestinians.
Kabulov, who served in Kabul as a junior diplomat in the 1980s, understands better than most that nothing unites the fractious Afghans more effectively than the presence of infidel soldiers on their holy soil.
He saw the assault as an atrocity committed on the holiest soil in Islam.
The attack left the crown trailing to the ground beside the almost severed trunk of the Glastonbury Thorn, said to have flowered on Wearyall Hill every Christmas day for 2,000 years, since Joseph of Arimathea thrust the staff he brought from the Holy Land into the soil and it miraculously broke into blossom.
Journalists still need to work hard to provide coherent and contextualised reporting to explain the alarming headlines that continue to be generated from the harsh and contested soil of the Holy Land.
But the real story here is the peripatetic adventures of the hero -- Nathan Kishon, a slaughterhouse worker dismissed for mixing kosher with nonkosher animal tongues -- among hustlers of beaver pelts, importers of mother-of-pearl buttons, peddlers of soil from the Holy Land, would-be carbonators of Lake Erie water and Indians passing as Jews.
For an archeologist to sink a shovel-blade in the soil of the Holy Land with the specific goal of validating the events and personalities described in the Bible, the argument goes, is both anti-historical and anti-scientific.
