Sentence examples for religious endeavour from inspiring English sources

This episode finally convinced him that he must abstain from public religious endeavour until he reached the priesthood.

More often than not, the men who strained and struggled understood themselves to be involved in a religious endeavour.

I groan at the name "God particle" (so why use it?), but it is hard to ignore the loose parallels that occasionally exist with religious endeavour.

As religious tensions persisted, Ferdinand endeavoured to dilute his precoronation pledges to the Bohemian magnates and to curtail the privileges of the estates.

By injecting B4L's criminal endeavours with a religious purpose, members feel ideologically driven in their duty and violence.

The commitment of religious leaders is instrumental in this endeavour.

The informants' reports about gratitude for care and acceptance of decline in old age, keeping in touch with family, narrating stories about their own identity, and engaging in religious activity indicate that the informants endeavour to re-create meaning, make sense of their predicament and maintain agency.

Yet what unifies all McEwan's fiction is his preoccupation with the randomness of human endeavour in a post-religious, Darwinian world: his novels invariably turn on one sudden, unaccountable, life-changing happening or fatal equivocation.

His prospectus for the paper promised to "zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious liberty, warmly advocate the cause of reform, endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of political economy, and support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, all serviceable measures".

Reading the government response to last year's consultation published in 2012, every possible endeavour has been made to take account of religious and other objections, and to ensure legal protection for religious communities, only allowing them to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies if their official governing bodies authorise this.

She exemplified her strong Orthodox faith by creating religious icons, which she distributed to the charitable endeavours she supported.