Sentence examples for it is the consecration of from inspiring English sources

It is the consecration of a career".

Yet the Whitney's debut on Gansevoort Street is a sign of something much more significant: it is the consecration of New York's return as a true waterfront city.

The issue that has brought the worldwide Anglican Church into crisis right now is the consecration of an openly gay man named Gene Robinson as bishop of the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire.

These are the consecration of openly gay clergy and, in particular, bishops; the approval of marriage-like rites for same-sex couples; and the "intervention" by conservative bishops (above all from Africa) in the affairs of liberal-dominated dioceses (often in North America).

His first act in this area was the consecration of Meurig as Bishop of Bangor in 1140, during which Meurig made a profession of obedience like those made by other bishops subject to Canterbury.

The ceremony itself is noteworthy for two reasons: it is the first recorded consecration of any English king, and it is unusual in that it asserted Ecgfrith's royal status while his father was still alive.

The rock on which the Anglican Communion is breaking is ostensibly the consecration of openly gay clergy, especially bishops, and blessings for same-sex unions.

For him morality rested not in reciting creeds but in weighing evidence for events; it was a consecration of doubt that vested his new professionals with the priests' old power.

Medieval Latin theology, however, allowed for the disappearance of the epiclesis since it was believed that the consecration of bread and wine and their transubstantiation into the body and blood of Christ took place when the priest pronounced the words of institution.

The global outpouring of adulation, and of grief, since his death Thursday is the inevitable consecration of that status.

And as far as female clergy are concerned, the consecration of various women to holy orders during the Stalinist dictatorship under which Czechoslovakia lived following the second world war, while never officially publicised, has never been declared invalid by the Vatican.