Sentence examples for initiation as a from inspiring English sources

Duffield will never forget his initiation as a budding apprentice at Newmarket when at the age of 15 he was buried up to his neck in a dung heap by the other lads at Waugh's yard.

The author Robert Caro remembers his initiation as a young Newsday reporter in the 1960's, as he slowly discovered that there could be a dubious deal behind every bend in the Meadowbrook Parkway or variance to build a gas station.

All communities agree that the authority to initiate belongs only to a qualified spiritual guide (guru), usually a Brahman, who has previously received the special guru-diksha (initiation as a teacher) and is often regarded as representing God himself.

It was natural for monastic legislators to portray the careers of idealized lay people as a preparatory stage to the rigours of ascetic life, but for Jain lay life to have meaning it need not necessarily culminate in initiation as a monk.

Since its initiation as a trial operation in 2005, 3,300 childcare facilities have been accredited, as of August 2007.

The failure results of the flax fibre LPET composites exhibited mainly matrix crack initiation as a brittle failure for low, medium and high fibre contents.

He said he did not think the shooting was part of a gang initiation, as had been rumored in a city plagued by violence between Crips and Bloods.

Nascent transcription analysis demonstrated that the ΨCTD is required specifically for productive transcription initiation, as an RNAP-II severely truncated within the ΨCTD caused abortive initiation.

Although only one of these trials specified initiation as an outcome, five reported data on initiation.

Two considered ART initiation as an endpoint, and neither observed an association with HSV-2 seropositivity; these studies were at moderate [ 12] and high [ 15] risk of bias respectively but the likely direction of this bias was difficult to ascertain.

As a result of the Kneitals' claims, the Gardnerian community in the Northeastern United States widely refused to accept the Brooklyn Heights coven as legitimate, and Siero decided to take up the Kneitals' offer for re-initiation; as a result, she disowned the initiations of Buczynski and Slater which she had carried out.