Sentence examples for order devoting from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

As in the previous games in the series, your character is still a member of the Assassins, a cryptic order devoted over the millenniums to battling a rival cult known as the Templars over nothing less than the soul of humanity.

Though we can only speculate about the specifics of Bosch's religious life, we know that he was a member of an élite religious order devoted to the service of Mary, and scholars believe he was likely influenced by Devotio Moderna, a medieval movement emphasizing the role of personal choice in salvation.

The nuns at Immaculate Conception were Holy Union Sisters, an order devoted to teaching.