Sentence examples for religious beginnings from inspiring English sources

His argument was that all the major religiously-created school had drifted away from the religious beginnings and had cut their ties with the denominations that founded them: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Duke, and the list was long.

Concepts derived from priestly speculation were imposed upon the simpler religious beginnings.

Ex-President Thomas Jefferson thanked his old friend Charles Thomson, a co-sponsor of the Declaration of Independence, for sending a copy of his newly completed synopsis of the Gospels.At a time when many modern Americans are arguing feverishly over the real significance of the nation's religious and political beginnings, such letters can be dynamite.

"IN THE BEGINNING" Religious stories have been unexpected hits in recent years, so why not go right to basics.

It is generally thought that Asian drama, like that of the West, had its beginnings in religious festivals.

The Peace of Westphalia ended one of the most bellicose periods of European history and arguably marked the opening of the modern era, with the recognition of nation states and the beginnings of religious toleration in Europe.

There is one line in particular where the soul is hung out like a white...…handkerchief, which, in a sense, goes back to the very beginnings of religious instruction, to the school catechism, where the innocent soul was a white handker­chief and then sin came along like a stain of soot or a piece of tar and the soul had to be cleansed at confession.

Mario M. Cuomo's justification for embryonic stem cell research diminishes the status of the unborn human embryo and suggests that only religious belief can determine the beginnings of human life.

Once he had proclaimed himself Mahdī, Muḥammad Aḥmad was regarded by the Sudanese as an eschatological figure who foreshadowed the end of an age of darkness (his arrival coincided with the end of a century—in this case, the 13th of the Muslim calendar, a period traditionally associated with religious renewal) and heralded the beginnings of a new era of light and righteousness.

I'm making my way down a cavernous stretch of east London's ExCel centre while the beginnings of the religious gathering (this year's theme: "BE COURAGEOUS!") kick off in at least three of its enormous exhibition rooms, which in turn are punctuated by a number of off-brand coffee stands.

Three different storylines come forth, one about a gay couple where one party struggles to come out to his religious mother, another showcasing the beginnings of a possible relationship between an aspiring actress and a shamed Wall Street broker, and finally a spotlight on a woman who, for lack of a better description, has made a series of bad decisions around life and love.