Sentence examples for in deserting from inspiring English sources

Where is the benefit in deserting jihad against those tyrants?

Within a year, however, in April 1793, he joined his commander, Charles-François Charles-François Dumouriez the Austrinns.

His last years were saddened by the action of his favourite and most outstanding pupil, Paulinus of Nola (later bishop and saint), in deserting literature for a life of Christian retirement.

There is no independent support for the tradition in Daniel of Nebuchadrezzar's seven years' madness, and the story probably arose from a fanciful later interpretation of texts concerned with events under Nabonidus, who showed apparent eccentricity in deserting Babylon for a decade to live in Arabia.

By John Cassidy November 8 , 2012In the last couple of days, there has been a lot of talk about how the gender gap cost Mitt Romney the election, and also about how Caucasian males, in deserting Obama en masse, are swimming against history.

Perhaps a soldier is morally justifiable in deserting his fellow soldiers, given that he learns of the more morally pressing need for him to care for his wife who has contracted some life-threatening disease back home.

Clients had already started deserting in droves.

Scorpions are common in desert regions.

Rainfall in deserts is usually meagre.

My sons served in Desert Storm.

Abolishing lawns in desert cities would help, too.