Sentence examples for membership increasingly from inspiring English sources

(Open membership, increasingly practiced in the United States, meant reception of unimmersed Christians from other denominations).

One year on, yoursafeplanet.com has found that more than 90% of its users are over 26 and Sally now sees future membership increasingly encompassing so-called "silver surfers".

While the government is making plans to involve schools in tackling gangs, there is no magic bullet to break the cycles which make gang membership increasingly attractive to some young people.

While many regard the church's decision to grant black members the priesthood in 1978 as a delayed reaction to the Civil Rights movement, which had achieved its major accomplishments more than a decade before, many scholars believe the church changed its course because growth overseas, particularly in South America, meant that its membership increasingly included those of African descent.

Arts organisations see membership as increasingly important as Government arts funding has been cut.

There is the secular disengagement of masses from organised politics, whether party membership or, increasingly, voting.

In addition, as final-salary schemes have closed to new members, they have become more "mature"; their membership has increasingly been dominated by retirees rather than current workers.

With Bosnia's economy struggling and its prospects for European Union and NATO membership appearing increasingly remote, the country is in need of national unity.

Far from making progress in the accession criteria for EU membership, the increasingly authoritarian Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is moving his country in the opposite direction.

"Some people think of us as the last bastion of European modernism," said John Davis, the president of the society's executive committee, during a concert intermission, "but our membership is increasingly diverse".

After the Pentagon lifted a ban on Shia militias joining the security forces, the special police commando (SPC) membership was increasingly drawn from violent Shia groups such as the Badr brigades.