Sentence examples for number of disciples from inspiring English sources

Yet Marley was troubled by the demographics of his growing number of disciples.

Although Mies attracted a great number of disciples, his indirect influence was perhaps of even greater importance.

He spent twelve years in St. Elizabeths, where he acquired a number of disciples, including John Kasper, a segregationist associated with the neo-Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell.

Full of indignation, Nichiren left Kamakura in June and with a small number of disciples retired to a solitary place on Mount Minobu, in the present Yamanashi prefecture.

Although Salutati's life was filled largely by political and administrative matters, he also developed a keen interest in Humanism, writing treatises and private letters on philosophical questions and on literary and textual criticism and influencing and patronizing a number of disciples, including Poggio and Leonardo Bruni.

The big bucks, of course, go to those who sign a large number of disciples who go on to recruit other vendors.

Quickly gathering large numbers of disciples, they staged rebellions against Vietnamese imperial and French colonial armies alike.

During the Civil War a number of leading Disciples, especially in the Border States, espoused pacifism on biblical grounds.

His fame as a holy hermit and wonder worker spread throughout the region, and by the mid-11th century the number of his disciples warranted a larger cave on the same site to house them.

The number of Confucius' disciples has been greatly exaggerated, with Sima Qian and other sources claiming that there were as many as three thousand of them.

Other scholar-bureaucrats were wary of Wang's heterodoxy, the increasing number of his disciples while still in office, and his overall socially rebellious message.