Sentence examples for martyrs it from inspiring English sources

The Tolpuddle Martyrs, it seems, were not transported in vain.

Today we're mourning and honoring our martyrs; it is about joy and mourning.

The Wilsons were not martyrs — it was the public that got hurt the most.

PAUL GOLDBERGER: I've referred to the original towers as our first skyscraper martyrs, and said that as with human martyrs, it is often thought to be disrespectful to be too critical of them.

During Mr. Arafat's meeting with the Israelis, in a sitting room dominated by an outsized photograph of the Jerusalem skyline, an aide popped in and handed him a note: two more Palestinian martyrs, it said.

She was, he said, one of the first Protestant martyrs: it was her claim that she had a direct, unmediated connection with God — and that she, not the Church, would judge the truth of her voices — that got her condemned as a heretic... Describes and quotes from the voluminous trial transcripts... Describes De Mille's "Joan the Woman".

It needs a martyr; it needs miracles.

It's not like you're a martyr — it just comes with the territory.

Although it is now meant to honor St. Lucia, a Christian martyr, it has been incorporated with earlier Norse solstice traditions, such as lighting fires to ward off spirits during the longest night.

There was invocation of St Catherine of Siena in the bishop of London's address, with its striking opening quotation: "Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire" (the martyr, it turns out, was plagued by eating disorders and kept herself alive by eating communion wafers).

However, historian Stefan Chureshki has emphasised that while Levski's post-monastical life was one of a martyr, it was incompatible with the Orthodox concept of sainthood.