Sentence examples for lay world from inspiring English sources

In the lay world - or the world of newspaper headlines - that looks like a shocking waste.

What all the lay world, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, is waiting for is a clear and universal set of guidelines that would help the church -- particularly seminaries and local parishes -- detect potential abusers before ordination.

Behind the crisis of American socialism lay World War I and its accompanying atmosphere of fear and intolerance.

While the judge in the case has decided that she alone -- not the jury -- will decide the validity of that defense at trial, the mere fact that a criminal defendant of Bulger's status might try to advance such a defense is startling -- at least to the lay world.

Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville, who... managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name".

In a lying world, hard information is essential, and the men at the top are willing to pay for it, even kill for it.

Liars in a lying world, lying through our teeth.

Behind these numbers lie world-record-breaking engineering challenges as well as some unusual social issues.

Although that may have just been him trying to lay the world's greatest reverse jinx.

For behind the seemingly innocuous culprit he fingered — "gravy" — lay a world of social and cultural implication.

Behind the cool facade, though, lay a world of trouble that began to engulf the Jokers as Davidson trailed them.