Sentence examples for of unworthy from inspiring English sources

To avoid the scandal of unworthy members, Wesley published, in 1743, Rules for the Methodist societies.

In fairness, the government has bailed out plenty of unworthy firms in the past without needing such an entity.

To rid the Senate of unworthy members, he reduced its numbers by successive reviews to about 600 (from the triumviral 1,000 or more).

But Beth thinks that she also extracted one of Nick's poker chips and must spend the movie fleeing from a set of unworthy suitors while fretting that the worthy one's love is not real, but rather magical.

That program was chiefly directed at freeing churches from lay control, especially by the appointment of unworthy candidates to ecclesiastical office through simony (i.e., the practice of buying church offices), and at forbidding the pervasive practice of clerical marriage and concubinage, which threatened the substance of the church.

For creditor nations, "more Europe" could come to mean paying the debts of unworthy foreigners; for debtors, it could mean having foreigners intruding ever deeper into their affairs.The breakdown of the Franco-German partnership, for the moment, makes a solution even more elusive.

No fatality of character destroys her, but simply the failings of Christians unworthy of their creed, allied to gratuitous and avoidable chance.

(Plato's list of things unworthy of imitation proves surprisingly commodious. Alongside villains one finds all women, slaves, animals, musical instruments, gears and pulleys, and sounds of water).

It is an in-your-face exposé of conditions unworthy of a civilized society.

"I felt ashamed of myself and unworthy of the responsibility of teaching a class of children.

Roger also was accused of avarice, and of making unworthy clerical appointments.