Sentence examples for national consecration from inspiring English sources

President Hoover, Mr Chief Justice, my friends: this is a day of national consecration.

"But not on national television during my consecration".

Vladimir Spivakov, artistic director of the festival, conducts the Russian National Orchestra in the "Consecration of the House" Overture and Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 by Beethoven with Bruno Leonardo Gelber as soloist.

— After an overwhelming vote here over the weekend by the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh that created the second schism with the national church since the 2003 election and consecration of an openly gay Episcopal bishop, both sides were hoping for a simple resolution.

Groups that left the Roman Catholic Church organized national Catholic churches in several countries and received consecration of their bishops from a bishop of the Jansenist Church of Holland.

To appear in a Hollywood movie would be a final consecration for Johnny Hallyday, who has become a French national hero by reworking every passing style of American and British pop music since 1958.

JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 2 — By more than a two-to-one vote, members of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh voted Friday in favor of separating from the national church because of a theological rift that began with the consecration of an openly gay bishop in 2003.

Pittsburgh became the second Episcopal diocese to leave the national church over a theological battle that had been brewing for 30 years and boiled over with the consecration of an openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, in New Hampshire five years ago.

African church leaders have threatened to walk out at the start of a week-long meeting of 38 national primates in Canterbury which begins on Monday to try to resolve a long-running dispute triggered by the consecration of an openly gay bishop in the United States.

A magnificent evening of consecration.

The consecration may not have worked, however.