Sentence examples for martyrdom from from inspiring English sources

Who could manufacture martyrdom from this pathetic denouement?

In the second, three of them receive crowns of martyrdom from the hand of God.

As with the attacks on Christians late last year, the bombs elicited statements of martyrdom from some members of the group attacked, in this case Shiites.

This ripping, ideally cast revival, which stars Richard Thomas and Laila Robins, brings out the sparkle in Edward Albee's, er, unorthodox tale of religious martyrdom from 1964.

Each martyr's family receives an official certificate of martyrdom from the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and a prize of $10,000.

Even if you have not read reports of Four Lions' premiere at Sundance, it should come as no surprise that Morris – the man behind surreal short film My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, and the TV series Nathan Barley, has taken on arguably the most bad-taste subject imaginable: a cell of homegrown jihadi bombers, feverishly plotting martyrdom from terrace houses in Doncaster.

And in her pilgrim's progress from Bridgeport to Greenwich Village, from a job in a zipper factory to a job at Wunda-Clutch, the Miracle Gripper, from virginity to martyrdom and from reading to writing, Mary Agnes is more than a match for Studs Dedalus.

But they also warned that Ramadan could bring an increase in attacks, either from religious militants who associate the period with heralded acts of martyrdom or from other guerrilla fighters.

Mr. Ashcroft said the videotapes, one for each of the five, "depict young men delivering what appear to be martyrdom messages from suicide terrorists".

This helps to explain why Aung San Suu Kyi is such a powerful symbol for the Burmese: her martyrdom differs from theirs only in that it is so intense and so public and therefore so exemplary.

Indeed, several former cult members said in interviews that part of the indoctrination concerned martyrdom, and from its earliest days the cult preached a gospel of doom and dire consequences from an angry God against people who had long forgotten his word.