Sentence examples for indulgence granted from inspiring English sources

The fund, an indulgence granted to no other Russian governor, frees Kadyrov from complete financial dependence on the Kremlin.

Its text is a plenary indulgence granted by Nicholas V for contributors to the defense of Cyprus against Turkish siege.

From Pawtucket to Woonsocket, the six-term representative's sins were often forgiven almost before they were admitted, and by people who said they were motivated by his hard work, his power or just the traditional indulgence granted to Kennedys in this region.

No other national movement has had the indulgence granted the Palestinians over the last half-century, and the results can be seen in the bravado and the senseless violence, in the inability of a people to come to terms with their condition and their needs.

This leads those of us in the umbrage industrial complex to wonder if there's any limit to the indulgence granted him by his supporters.

Public anger also increased because of the trial of seven bishops who had publicly opposed James's Declaration of Indulgence granting religious liberty to his subjects, a policy which appeared to threaten the establishment of the Anglican Church.

On view alongside the drawings are two indulgences, granted by Popes Julius II and Leo X; one has a blank space left for the purchaser's name.

Indulgences granted by the church from the "treasury of merits" (Christ's infinite merit and the merits of all the saints) could remit some or all of this temporal punishment, and suffrages performed by the living on behalf of the dead could lessen its severity.

They petitioned the king to grant them the advowsons of the parish churches of Barnham, Easington and Heslerton, and in 1309 and 1311 the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Durham rewarded the priory's donors with indulgences granting remission of temporal punishment for sins.

After initial opposition, the bishop of Leiria on October 13 , 1930 accepted the children's visions as the appearance of the Virgin Mary; in the same year, papal indulgences were granted to pilgrims.

Indulgences are granted for specific acts of piety wherein the Church grants remission of sin and have long been a common practice, yet as Noonan observes, when it comes to ring kissing, in most Western nations, prelates have long discouraged the practice.