Sentence examples for or brethren from inspiring English sources

She and her comrades addressed one another as ikhwan, or "brethren". She began covering herself in a hijab, a punishing ordeal in sweltering Nairobi.

The Ikhwân al-Safâ' or "Brethren of Purity", as their name is commonly translated, are the authors of one of the most complete Medieval encyclopedias of sciences, antecedent at least two centuries to the best known in the Latin world (by Alexander Neckham, Thomas de Cantimpré, Vincent de Beauvais, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, all dating back to the 13th century).

Ruling or serving brethren are elected and minister without compensation.

Never mind that the Dojinkai has long been one of Japan's top organized crime syndicates, or yakuza, brethren of the American mafia.

"A dissent tends to be a clear signal that this is one justice who is not on board with whatever scheme his or her brethren are concocting," Sonja R. West wrote in The Michigan Law Review in 2006.

Petr Chelčický, one of his successors, wrote treatises containing radical social ideas from which sprang the Unitas Fratrum, or Bohemian Brethren, a sect and prototype of the Moravian church that became an important source of Czech literature for the next two centuries.

Anyone who still believes men's tennis players are second-tier athletes compared with their basketball or soccer brethren would be advised to consult the Internet for highlights: focus on those where both ended up sprawled on the grass at the end of epic points.

I've never come across one for which I or my brethren in the pundit business haven't got answers.

They are far from being a joke for plaintiff lawyers, or their brethren on the defense side.

San Francisco gets a little starstruck when new notables appear; those red carpets seem to compel the teensiest bit of green envy of our Angeleno brethren, or our New York cousins, or our Parisian pals.

Now, if Greece can't persuade investors to buy 53 billion euros of its government debt this year, it may have to seek a bailout from its European Union brethren or the International Monetary Fund — or, worse, to default.