Sentence examples for on a parable from inspiring English sources

By justifying the call on theological grounds and drawing on a parable of Omar Ibn al-Khattab, one of the 7th century's first four successors of the Prophet Mohammed, widely viewed by even the most conservative or militant Muslims as the righteous caliphs, Sheikh Ali Al Qaradaghi made it more difficult for Qatar and other Gulf states to justify evading radical labor reforms.

In an important debate in the 1950s and 1960s, philosophical arguments about God were likened to debates about the existence and habits of an unobservable gardener, based on a parable by John Wisdom in 1944 1945.

Pi, after all, is a practitioner of three major religions who also happens to have a strong background in science; with such a broad résumé, his story inevitably takes on the quality of a parable.

As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.

JUDE LAW sounds like a name conceived by Talmudic scholars for a parable about a sheriff on Mount Sinai.

Unlike so many of the stories we are told, this one is not a parable — at least, not on purpose.

Five Go on a Strategy Away Day is a parable on all that is wrong and David Brentish in modern workplaces: pulling Julian, Anne, Dick, George and Timmy out of their exciting world and into a beige meeting room to eat dry sandwiches with Susan from HR feels rather mean.

Ms. Krauss sings all alone on "Trampled Rose," a parable of spurned love by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan.

If moral clarity were to lead to an oversimplified view of the war on terrorism as "a parable of good (us) versus evil (them)," I fear it may impede the kind of analytical clarity the United States needs to expose areas where we might be at fault.

A lot of critics have been left dissatisfied by the notion that this is a parable on screen violence, one that asks us to examine our own motivation.

Germany, Sarkozy's favorite positive example, provides a parable on exactly this score.