Sentence examples for of a creed from inspiring English sources

As a summary of a creed, Ms. MacLuan said, "tree-hugger" is close enough.

It captures the essence of a creed that so often decries change, but has proved remarkably adept at surviving it.

It is instead the manifestation of a creed written into our founding documents: "We the People … in order to form a more perfect union".

We choose a religion, when we do, not for the tenets of a creed but for the totality of a circumstance, for a tone and a practice and an encompassing condition: "It feels like home" (or "like my father's puppet theatre") is about the truest thing that the convert can say about his new faith.

For a historian of religious or political thinking, it is of course very important to measure the degree of deviation from the original predication of a creed or from the first manifesto of a governmental system.

Revelation in Judaism and Islam deals fundamentally with law, with the correct social order, whereas in Christianity it is the revelation of a creed or set of dogmas, Strauss argues.

One of these essays summarizes the teachings of Judaism in a creed of Thirteen Articles of Faith.

A style of dress, like a creed, may be freely chosen, or cruelly enforced.

PepsiCo has started preaching a creed of "performance with purpose".

Bokononism, his invented religion, was a creed of "bittersweet lies".

Unlike liberalism, social/moral conservatism is essentially a creed of lost causes.