Sentence examples for religious death from inspiring English sources

A fatwa is not a "religious death sentence" nor is it "unliftable".

Still, the fatwa is different from the religious death verdict issued in 1989 by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini against the British writer Salman Rushdie over his book "The Satanic Verses" because it was made by a religious leader who has no political role.

THE foreign policy of Iran has, for years, been all but paralysed by two taboos: talking about better relations with America, the "Great Satan", and revoking the fatwa the religious death sentence passed on Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who in 1989 outraged Islamic sensibilities with his book "The Satanic Verses".

There is a notorious and baffling phrase of Donne's, in "The Second Anniversary," when he is commemorating "the Religious death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury," who was, he says, "richly and largely hous'd": Her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought.

If you're religious death marks the beginning of everything.

Reid points out that we actually have a lot of "bad people doing awful things" that have nothing to do with al Qaeda-style religious death cults.

On the flip side of the same religious death-count coin, the Afghanistan government took out over 27 Taliban insurgents over a 24-hour-long period.

Such vertical, quasi-religious death cults always rely upon the leader, because the leader's survival is the key to perpetuating the belief that utopia is possible.

He goes on to say, "The challenge of our lifetime is a religious totalitarian death cult".

Sigourney's writing relied on sentimental conventions of moral and religious themes; death and piety were her most popular subjects.

In her bedroom, there was a photo of Thomas's father as a young man, and on the glass frame below his face she had placed a small square of white paper with a few lines of religious poetry: Death hides — But it cannot divide.