Sentence examples for religious restraint from inspiring English sources

We can refer to this injunction to exercise restraint as The Doctrine of Religious Restraint (or the DRR, for short).[3] This abstract characterization of the DRR will require some refinements, which we'll provide in sections 2 and 3.

The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, like the Pilgrims, sailed to America principally to free themselves from religious restraints.

Dr. Amir al-Haidari, the manager of drug addiction programs for the Ministry of Health of Iraq, said that alcohol abuse was once a bigger problem than prescription drug abuse, "but after the American invasion of Iraq, alcohol became limited because of the security situation and religious restraints".

Geller, who uses the article to promote her book, also highlights an email that questions: "Would any other ethnic group have received this glowing review from the NYT of a prom based on ethnic and religious restraints?" While Ahmed and her friends organized the school's first all-girls dance on their own, teens in Southern California have been attending "Mormon Prom" for years.

The church is asking the courts to reverse the zoning law on grounds of religious persecution and restraint of trade.

The Christian doctrines of Spain had a great influence on his approach to painting his art is filled with passion and restraint, religious fervor and Neoplatonism, as well as the mysticism of Counter-Reformation.

In spite of these very strong religious and emotional restraints, the church developed a form of art peculiar to its needs.

There was something about him that spoke to that part of ourselves that lives within pretty severe constraints — cultural restraints, religious boundaries, et cetera — that we wish we could elbow our way out of".

But even if we do all that, no laws or walls we put up will ever be sufficient to protect us unless the Arab and Muslim societies from whence these suicide bombers emerge erect political, religious and moral restraints as well — starting by shaming suicide bombers and naming their actions "murder," not "martyrdom".

But he insisted that Tajiks, many of whom are newly religious, needed guidance — and restraint.

Many ordinary Shiites have lost patience with the calls for restraint from religious leaders like Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.