Sentence examples for prayer for a from inspiring English sources

The prayer for a benign dictator is more lament than actual political wish.

Karen An-Hwei Lee's "Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine" is from Poetry (November 2010).

Duruflé's Messe cum Jubilo and Shepherd's "Prayer for a New Mother"; Claudia Dumschat, organist and choirmaster.

They will be bestowed with a poor man's prayer, for a good harvest, debt relief, or a son.

Prayer for a Bamboo-Flowering Famine By Karen An-Hwei Lee Every half century, the synchronous flowering of bamboo causes famine in parts of India.

Nearly five months before that Christmas party, the chaplain of the Senate, the Rev. Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the opening prayer for a rare Sunday session.

Charlotte barely had a prayer for an NFL franchise.

Prayer for Relief, a 3-year-old son of Jump Start, developed a fever.

Ms. Kaufman's prayers for a good test-giver were answered.

Then she decided that a life of casting calls and prayers for a lucky break wasn't for her.

Walter Brueggemann, Prayers for a Privileged People, 2008.