Sentence examples for martyrdom a from inspiring English sources

His death is a martyrdom, a sacrifice".

Convincing his Hindu neighbours will be uphill work, with martyrdom a distinct possibility.

We were talking about martyrdom, a word that's existed as long as humans have.

But suicide attacks or "martyr operations" in some terror groups' parlance have given martyrdom a bad name.

Either an honorable life or martyrdom". A man called Abu Rateb, who is married with children, said: "We're dead now.

Arthur Hill, however is a match for her, inexhaustible, writhing in his self-hating martyrdom, a well-stocked mind at the service of his campaign of humiliation.

In any case, these references demonstrate that in the culture there is a well of special meaning to be drawn upon that can make an obscure death a martyrdom and a gesture of forgiveness an act of grace.

But he also referred several times to martyrdom, an especially powerful notion in Shiite Islam, and praised the protesters killed in clashes with the military.

The chalk is always white when depicting the anonymous victims, who become spectral icons of martyrdom, an association underscored by the show's largest work, "Obscene Intimacy".

"Martyrdom," an oil on canvas still life/stele by Eduardo Alvarado, speaks quietly about spiritual and historical references in a tone that Nathan Oliveira would have admired.

That he can see this as a great hardship but not a martyrdom is a triumph not only of goodness but also of the imagination.