Sentence examples for pontificate for from inspiring English sources

He and Sir Michael Rose both pontificate for military-flavoured management consultancies (McKinney Rogers and Skarbek Associates, respectively).

Despite charges of paganism levelled against his pontificate for its secular extravagances even astrologers were admitted to the papal court Pope Paul was determined to reform the church.

The Vatican announced today that it would partly open its prewar archives next year, but would not make available documents on Pius XII's controversial World War II pontificate for at least three more years.

Dante concludes his Monarchia by assuring his reader that he does not mean to imply "that the Roman government is in no way subject to the Roman pontificate, for in some ways our mortal happiness is ordered for the sake of immortal happiness".

As the numb horror flits slowly across her face it's as though we're watching the flip side to Sex and the City, the moment when Carrie woke up and realised she might have a closet full of spindly shoes but the price she's paid is being forced to listen to Big pontificate for the rest of her life.

Is There Life After the Pontificate for Francis?

These eager but misguided souls unfortunately took his pontificating for the real thrill of a sharp mind grappling with splendid texts.

I guess it makes good copy or fine pontificating for an agent, but reality seems a step very much removed.

During some pontificates, for example that of Pope Pius V (1566 1572) and his nephew Michele Bonelli, the cardinal-nephew and secretary of state were one and the same.

The strategy also prevented cable news hosts and pundits from pontificating for an hour beforehand about what the president might say and what it might mean, Pfeiffer said.

Aeronautical and engineering experts have declared Moller's Skycar as "impossible" and online flamers have pontificated for years that it's a fraud, laughing and calling names all the way.