Sentence examples for massive conversions from inspiring English sources

They swept into the highlands, drove the Ethiopian emperor into exile, forced massive conversions, and by 1533 controlled most of central Ethiopia.

The government has undertaken massive conversions of state-held shares to tradable shares in various state-owned enterprises this year.

The 15 years of guerrilla warfare led to massive conversions to Christianity.

His father, a plumbing and heating contractor who had a drinking problem, had a "massive" conversion experience, one that Father Duggins honors.

What will survive is the rapid and massive conversion of local authority-maintained schools into self-governing academies, promoted by Gove.

The sport faced potent competition, not only from other professional sports (especially gridiron football) but even more from a massive conversion of Americans from public to private, at-home diversions.

But Lark Hayes, a lawyer for the Southern Environmental Law Center, based in Chapel Hill, N.C., said that while urbanization was clearly a factor in the destruction of forests, there were other major threats as well, particularly by what she called the "massive conversion" of forestland to pine tree plantations.

Paternal demethylation at fertilization results in a massive conversion of hypermethylation to intermediate methylation levels at gene bodies, and is therefore linked to elevated transcriptional noise.

Remarkably, in the colon, all crypts exhibited a massive conversion of epithelial cells into Alcian-Blue-positive goblet cells (Fig. 2F).

By inhibiting Notch signaling, GSIs lead to an increase in the BHLH transcription factor Math1 (also known as ATOH1; an important factor for epithelial cell fate determination, which is repressed by Notch activation) and to a massive conversion of crypt epithelial cells into goblet cells in the murine intestine (Milano et al., 2004; van Es et al., 2005; Okamoto et al., 2009).

Not only is there "no evidence of massive coercive conversion" to Islam, but also so much of what we know as popular Hinduism — the currently popular devotional cults of Rama and Krishna, the network of pilgrimages, ashrams and sects — acquired its distinctive form during Mughal rule.