Sentence examples for on a parish from inspiring English sources

Ordained in 1954, he spent 10 years on a parish staff but ultimately was allowed to focus on research and publishing.

Whatever readers were expecting, it wasn't The Casual Vacancy, a tale of politicking on a parish council with not a trace of magic.

Deciding on a parish magazine's "mission" is a fundamental issue that probably exercises every parish, and is one of the main challenges for a parish magazine editor.

They've been in my dreams since I saw them as a little boy with my family on a parish trip, since I slept curled up against them as a 15-year-old after a beach party.

Court papers quote from menacing postcards and letters — at least some written on a parish letterhead — that Father Ajemian is alleged to have sent to Mr. O'Brien's home and television studio for more than a year.

By focusing on a parish council, Rowling almost entirely avoids explicit mention of party politics, but it is perfectly obvious that the faction seeking to decouple Pagford from the sink estate on its outskirts are Tories.

Besides, he's not unneedful of his inherited income; he has nine children — all of them born before his elevation to the bishop's chair — and on the modest stipend of a parish priest he would scarcely have been able to raise and educate them in the way he wished.

Along with a smoothed geo-map of participation, we present a statistical certainty geo-map based on the posterior probabilities of a parish-specific NPR above 1 given the data, denoted Pr NPR>1|data).

He spent six years from 1987 as a university chaplain in south London before taking on a large parish in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

As a cardinal he was entitled to live in Rome but he insisted on remaining a parish priest in blighted Birmingham.

Kinch, he said, is a likely spelling variation of Kennish or Kinnish, appearing sometime in the early 17th century, perpetuated by a clerk in a parish record on one particular afternoon.