Sentence examples for religious powers from inspiring English sources

However, such alignment between political and religious powers has drawn suspicion.

Wills finds scant warrant for the Roman Catholic priesthood, and its religious powers, in the books of the New Testament.

Pilgrimage in Hinduism, as in other religions, is the practice of journeying to sites where religious powers, knowledge, or experience are deemed especially accessible.

Many Israelis think that the really explosive issue for Mr. Barak may not be his peace proposals, but his challenge to Israel's religious powers.

In the last 30 years, since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the religious powers in the two countries have taken entirely different roads.

The combination of brewing's connection to the religious powers of the Holy Roman Empire, the city's easily excavated sandstone layers and beer's relative safety compared with water allowed the beverage to thrive here.

The intense scrutiny of people's love lives is a sure sign of the exercise of religious power.

In practice, however, merging constitutionally enshrined religious power with existing civil and criminal law has been difficult.

And as for any specifically religious power in this text, McKenzie, whatever his personal beliefs, writes as a methodological atheist.

"I see the total power of the authorities — religious power, economic power, military power, security power, media power, all its power, against my organization — and I don't even have money to buy soap.

The combination of civil and religious power in the hands of the ecumenical patriarchate and the upper reaches of the hierarchy prompted furious competition for high office.