Sentence examples for religious necessity from inspiring English sources

His rhetorical genius lay in making closely reasoned argument ring with the sound of religious necessity.

By the closing decades of the 20th century, it had generally fallen out of favour except in cases of medical or religious necessity.

The students, dressed in loose white pants and long shirts, suggested that they accepted the demands because they had to, not because they believed it was a religious necessity.

A few years ago after a measles outbreak linked to Disneyland, California got rid of its belief exemptions, leaving no parent able to excuse a child from certain shots because of hippie misconceptions or arguments about religious necessity.

Even though some neighbors might believe otherwise, the Orthodox have moved into these areas in large numbers not with any intent to conquer, but out of religious necessity, because they must be able to walk to a synagogue on the Sabbath.

More than an issue of the control of public land and federal taxation, it shows that Bundy and those close to him tie a unique interpretation of Mormon tenets to fundamental American governance and believe that defending their land is both a political and a religious necessity.

The religious necessities and technical skill of the medieval monks were crucial factors in the development of clocks, as the historian Thomas Woods writes: The appearance of clocks in writings of the 11th century implies that they were well known in Europe in that period.

Scientists had hoped that the treatment would be a powerful weapon in their broad effort to shield very young children from the AIDS epidemic in Africa, without the need to tackle the difficult issue of breast-feeding, which is a medical risk but a cultural, religious or economic necessity for millions of African women.

Respondent's application of the ordinance's test of necessity devalues religious reasons for killing by judging them to be of lesser import than nonreligious reasons.

The court again cited Rutledge's dissent in Everson, among other precedents, to support that point: "Our constitutional policy…does not deny the value or the necessity for religious training, teaching or observance".

His emphasis on the necessity of religious worship as a means of salvation continued in a more systematic context the devotional effusions of the Alvars, the 7th 10th century poet-mystics of southern India, whose verse became incorporated into temple worship.