Sentence examples for protestant at the from inspiring English sources
Although her father was a Roman Catholic, she was reared a Protestant at the insistence of her uncle, King Charles II.
It became largely Protestant at the time of the Reformation and after the Massacre of St . Bartholomews Day (1572), in which many French Protestants (Huguenots) were killed; many of the survivors took refuge there.
One could say, then, that Weber's method of ideal type construction, illustrated in his sociological account of the Protestant at the origins of capitalism, is not really that foreign to the everyday life-world in which actors beyond the Consociate level continually relate to each other via such type construction.
Though she was reported to have been a Protestant at the time of her death, evidence suggests that she may have converted to Catholicism sometime in her life.
That was why they sought to overcome the divisions that beset Protestants at the time.
Luther and Zwingli's failure to create a unified front among Protestants at the meeting had fatal consequences for Zwingli.
Visitors are allowed into the "private chapel" of one of Britain's most murderous monarchs, Mary Tudor, where she is burning Protestants at the stake.
If the pattern of public opinion in general is bell-shaped, that of religious belief has the profile of a Volkswagen Beetle: a bump of evangelical Protestants at the front, a bigger bulge of uncensorious congregations in the middle and a stubby secular tail.
Mary I married Philip of Spain, who was declared king and co-ruler, pursued disastrous wars in France and attempted to return England to Roman Catholicism, burning Protestants at the stake as heretics in the process.
James nearly succeeded in pushing the Protestant settlers north and off the island, but failed; the Protestant victory at the Boyne River, in 1690, is celebrated every July.
If confirmed, she would be the first black woman on the Supreme Court; plus she's a Protestant at a time when the Supreme Court doesn't have any Protestants.
