Sentence examples for order devoted from inspiring English sources

From Foulques's charter in that year, Dominic's design for an order devoted to preaching developed rapidly.

The soldiers who had been brought in to restore order devoted their efforts to roasting pigeons and looting homes.

Lambert Wilson plays Christian, the head of a Cistercian monastery in Algeria: a spartan order devoted to contemplation and prayer.

I embraced my dereliction as a religious discipline; it was as if I were a monk sworn to an order devoted to affirming God's original world.

After demobilisation he graduated from Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, and followed an elder brother into the Society of St Joseph, an order devoted to helping African-Americans.

The Capuchin Friars, a Catholic order devoted to serving the poor, ran the parish for 35 years for the Diocese of Paterson.

Mr Starr's conduct leaves the strong impression that had he been born earlier, he would have joined the ranks of the Dominican order, devoting his life to the invention of better instruments of torture in order to extract his kind of truth from witnesses.

Father Conroy, 61, a Roman Catholic from the Jesuit order, had devoted much of his career to college chaplaincy and social-justice work.

Most of "The Origins of Political Order" is devoted to telling the story of how the state, the rule of law and accountability happened to evolve independently in different societies, before their combination in 18th-century Britain.

He starts by echoing arguments made by Samuel Huntington and others about conservatism being a situational ideology, one arising in reaction to a fundamental challenge to an existing order and devoted to preserving traditional institutions.

Life is capricious"), then by the even scarier hooded monk Brother Sheamus of the Ruskinites, an order once devoted to finding the divinity of God through the perfection of engineering but now gone strangely apocalyptic.