Sentence examples for righteous desire from inspiring English sources

Their battles with Tony Blair at No 10 were legendary and legion, fired by a righteous desire to redistribute more widely than Blair did.

"The righteous desire for vengeance does not justify twisting the evidence and convicting by innuendo," said Mary Kelly, who represents Mr. Bernabe Ramirez.

But the campaign has also come to symbolise something else, a new intolerance of words and images that is sweeping across British and American university campuses, a zealous form of cultural policing that relies on accusatory rhetoric and a righteous desire to censor history, literature, politics and culture.

There's plenty that's been said on the negative side of the ledger — no doubt inspired by a righteous desire to protect the little-guy merchant and investor and not at all fueled by a desire for Twitter followers or endless TV appearances.

The sealing ordinance is to join together a couple and their offspring, both born and unborn, for eternity, based on their personal righteousness, the righteous desires of their hearts and their service to humanity.

At least Australia will not have Willie Mason, who is serving his one-match suspension for flooring Stuart Fielden in Sydney, but that has added self-righteous indignation to the desire for revenge the Kangaroos were already harbouring after losing to the Lions last week - a combination that does not bode well for Britain, who have not won in Brisbane in eight Tests since 1962.

This is what St. James knew when he wrote, "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because man's anger does not produce the righteous life that God desires".

In the 16th century concern for "justification" (the act through which God grants a sinner grace or makes a sinner righteous) was related to the desire, often expressed in language drawn from the courts of law, of finding oneself on good terms with God.

To support their contention that Heaven desires what is righteous (yi), for example, they characterize righteousness as comprising life, wealth, and order and claim that Heaven desires these.

And are they driven by righteous missions of exposure or by a desire to get credit for them?

And it's righteous because it is rooted in the desire for truth and upholding the Constitution".