Sentence examples for leper from inspiring English sources

Mother Teresa was a "PR machine" who, whether talking to a dying leper or a rich donor, "always left her imprint by communicating in a language the other person understood".

Calling for stronger measures there, Hugh Byrne, the Irish junior minister of natural resources, has described Britain as "the leper of Europe".In contrast, the Irish authorities have treated the British epidemic as a national emergency.

Monty Edson, the vice-president handling the trial, says that HIV sufferers are being transformed "from leper status to the victims of just another chronic disease".

WHEN Fiji's coup leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, made it known he would attend a meeting of Pacific leaders in Tonga this week, New Zealand's prime minister, Helen Clark, said he would be "treated like a leper".

He then carried him home to care for him until he died, and began once he had had training in Calcutta to work in leper clinics all around the town.His own ashram, founded in 1951 on barren, rocky land full of snakes, was specifically for the handicapped and for lepers, who built and tilled it from scratch with half a dozen tools and their stumps of hands.

He called Luther "a leper with a brain of brass and a nose of iron" and dismissed his arguments on the basis of papal infallibility.

Deliberately, he went back to the gutter to feed the leper and to learn his name, Tulshiram.

In the past few months, worries about the stability of the system have meant that investors have given shares in rich-country banks the leper treatment.

Ireland's resources minister, Hugh Byrne, described Britain as "the leper of Europe" (see article).

His family, landowner Brahmins who had given him a costly education and a sports car, were scandalised; and the more so when, in 1946, he married a Brahmin girl, Sadhna, who thought nothing of leaving her own sister's wedding to help a servant-woman do the washing.It was the encounter with the dying leper, however, that shaped Mr Amte's life.

The pile was flesh; it was a leper, dying.