Sentence examples for revered rules from inspiring English sources

Not only international law and the United Nations, the revered rules and robes of humanity, e.g., the Torah, the Koran, the Christian Bible; Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed, Rabbi Hillel and the rabbi formerly known as Jesus of Nazareth.

Howard was a paradox – a convinced social democrat who so revered the rules of polite conduct that he reproved me for using a mobile telephone in a restaurant.

The "They-can-call-themselves-priests" set adheres (as they revere) to rules handed down by a lineup of men who have, throughout the history of the church, broken and altered canon law at will.

Some scholars argued that a country that has come to revere majority rule and the principle of one-person, one-vote, was bound to chafe at an institution created by men who were deeply suspicious of too much direct power in the hands of the voters.

Sheik Abdul-Rahman al-Barrak, one of Saudi Arabia's most revered clerics, had ruled that two newspaper columnists should be executed if they did not publicly renounce their "heretical articles" questioning the view that Christians and Jews should be considered unbelievers.

And even back then, royalty and celebrities were revered: the Yankees ruled the fields, Dior captured women and a young Queen Elizabeth accepted her crown.

The Israeli Supreme Court changed the rules of worship at Judaism's most revered shrine today when it ruled that women can hold group services at the Western Wall, wear prayer shawls and read aloud from Torah scrolls.

Does the army really believe that the AK government is steering Turkey away from Ataturk's revered secular republic towards religious rule?

In 1540, as Michelangelo worked on the ultimate Renaissance painting, Pope Paul III licensed a new religious order, the Society of Jesus; the Jesuits' founder, Ignatius Loyola, downplayed the classical pagan authors revered by the Renaissance and ruled that a Jesuit must believe black is white and white is black if the church said so.

Maybe with the Constitution (which Republicans claim to revere), the Golden Rule, and a globe?

In these settings, the importance of competitive sports becomes paramount, for both financial and training purposes, and the artistry of cheating (see this year's Stuyvesant High School cheating scandal) and rule-bending (see Joe Paterno) revered.