Sentence examples for sacred altar from inspiring English sources
"The Internet Big V 'Xue Manzi' has toppled from the sacred altar," said the main state-run news agency, Xinhua.
She wrapped up thousands of dollars in a handkerchief and gave it to Marks to get blessed at a sacred altar in Hollywood, Florida.
This week, an estimated 500 women traveled by bus toward a temple in the Indian state of Maharashtra with the intent of storming its sacred altar – where females have been barred for more than 400 years.
In him, therefore, they placed their whole remaining hopes; his wisdom was the sacred altar and temple to which they fled for refuge, and his counsels, more than anything, preserved them from dispersing and deserting their city, as in the time when the Gauls took possession of Rome.
The firemen outdid themselves and transformed the firehouse into a sacred altar.
He was still serving in these capacities as late as 1543 when he described himself as a "minister of the sacred altar in the diocese of St. Andrews, notary by apostolic authority" in a notarial deed dated 27 March.
What was new about this ceremony, the annual Great Spring Festival of Yasukuni Shrine, held under a flawless blue sky, was that it was the first time that foreign journalists had ever been allowed so close to the sacred altars and hallowed grounds of the most hotly disputed shrine of Japan's oldest religion.
Against the universal norms of either Kant's or Fichte's morality, he stood rather as the champion of the exception — the one who, for the sake of the individual, would dare profane the sacred altars, indeed to lie and even murder.
The eeriest spot in Petra is the High Place of Sacrifice – a sacred mountaintop altar where livestock were slaughtered to appease the gods.
What is the role of objectivity in journalism is the truth sacrificed on this sacred journalistic altar of objectivity?
These and other rituals were accomplished for the most part in the open, within a specially delimited sacred area, or altar (tan), the outdoor complement of the oratory.
