Sentence examples for order devoted to from inspiring English sources
From Foulques's charter in that year, Dominic's design for an order devoted to preaching developed rapidly.
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.
Ansāb al-ashrāf ("Lineage of the Nobles"), also extant, is a biographical work in genealogical order devoted to the Arab aristocracy, from Muhammad and his contemporaries to the Umayyad and ʿAbbāsid caliphs.
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.
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.
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.
The soldiers who had been brought in to restore order devoted their efforts to roasting pigeons and looting homes.
However, conditions in County Armagh gave rise to bitter sectarian strife, and a pitched battle between Protestant and Catholic factions at the Diamond (near Loughgall) in September 1795 led to the founding of the Orange Society (later known as the Orange Order), which was devoted to maintaining British rule and Protestant ascendancy.
