Sentence examples for religious compromise from inspiring English sources

They appear to have been determined to abandon Nefertiti's policy of religious compromise and to return to full traditional polytheism.

The first controversy arose over the religious compromise between the Lutheran theologians of Wittenberg, primarily Philipp Melanchthon, and Saxony's civil and ecclesiastical leaders.

The importance of the proposal lay in its spirit of religious compromise and its initiation of state responsibility for education, both of which were predictive of future development.

A Chilean priest and member of Opus Dei, Lacroix is the narrator of this deathbed novella of religious compromise and hypocrisy.

Charles settled the matter for a time by subduing the Protestant powers, which would not accept any religious compromise, by military force and by enforcing his own compromise scheme, the Augsburg Interim of 1548.

Guided by the moderate chancellor Michel de L'Hospital, Catherine summoned the French clergy to the Colloquy of Poissy (1561), at which an unsuccessful attempt was made to effect a religious compromise with the Huguenots; in the following year she issued the Edict of January, which allowed the Calvinists a degree of toleration.

Although the assembly was proclaimed by Charles V, he did not wish to take part in the inevitable religious compromises and refused to attend the proceedings.

Even politicians who are deeply religious should compromise on issues like gay rights, the death penalty, abortion and welfare, a majority said.

Heck, you can have one hand on the steering wheel and the other holding a ham sandwich and in no way are their religious beliefs compromised... even if they paid for the sandwich.

16 Israel's Kosher Compromise Religious leaders of Israel have come to a compromise over shmita, the sabbatical year when the land of Israel is supposed to lie fallow.

But because the roots of the conflict are religious, a comprehensive compromise that bridges both the religious and the secular has the best chance of avoiding a societal rift.