Sentence examples for rival orders from inspiring English sources

Its prominence and growing wealth, however, provoked opposition from rival orders.

He established, with the military assistance of the Khoshut Mongols, the supremacy of the Dge-lugs-pa sect over rival orders for the temporal rule of Tibet.

Already expelled from France and Portugal, the Jesuits were bitterly criticized by rival orders as well as by the secular clergy: 42 of the 56 bishops approved of the expulsion.

In effect, the dissolution of the Templars could be seen as the merger of the two rival orders.

Far less popular is what follows: King Herod, the reigning monarch, in a murderous search for his baby rival, orders the killing of all male children two years and younger in Bethlehem and its environs (Matthew 2 16).

Unlike rival orders such as the Benedictines, who allowed the nave to be used by parishioners and visitors, the Cistercians officially reserved their churches solely for the use of the monastic community.

And what we could see was that sheer class will have its moments, even in a competition that comes some way down in the rivals' order of priorities.

Airbus, by contrast, merely cancelled plans to ramp up production, and has managed to maintain profit margins at a healthy 7%.In 2003, Airbus beat its American rival on orders for the fourth time in five years.

He invented his naturalist style, implied a bitter rival, in order to get noticed.

President Karzai had made little effort to hide his opposition to the idea of his brother taking his place in the presidential palace, and when a gathering of tribal elders reportedly backed Qayum over his 75-year-old rival, he ordered them and the two candidates to reconsider.

Yangism mainly proposes a (shocking!) rival first order normative dao egoism.