Sentence examples for revered men from inspiring English sources

He is the founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, and his affinity for one of the 20th century's most revered men comes naturally: Arun Gandhi is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.

In any case, when he finally does take his character over the precipice, it's a memorable plunge, one that has particular resonance these days when the papers carry almost daily stories of revered men who have succumbed to illicit impulses.

Suggested by Mark Thomas This 2008 documentary offers an up-close-and-personal portrait of one of the most revered men in fashion, Valentino Garavani, in the twilight of his career.

Toward the end of his life, however, he became a universally revered man, a personality that for all its defects and insufficiencies held together the rotting structure of the multinational state.

In 1926 he discredited Russell's teaching on the importance of Christian "character development" or personal "sanctification" and a year later discarded the teaching that Russell had been the "faithful and wise servant" of Matthew 24:45–47, warning that the desire to revere men was a snare set by the Devil.

"I tended to learn from what I would consider the revered wise men, the veterans, the political veterans who really took an interest in my career".

The brand of truth-telling these battle-scarred men are revered for situates men as both always naturally in control but as now having to fight for their position.

"It was clear Jiang Zemin revered this man," Dr. Griffiths said.

After our workshop guides related a couple of stories about this revered, gentle man, it was hard not to like him.

Some were powerfully exotic: a mask of the Hindu deity Garuda, a horned bird carrying a cotton serpent in its beak, embodied the spirit of a revered holy man from the past who had "converted" to Buddhism.

The most famous and influential of the early Jewish apocalypses is the last part of the biblical Book of Daniel (chapters 7 12), written about 167 bce and attributed to a revered wise man who supposedly lived some four centuries earlier at the time of the Babylonian captivity.