Sentence examples for sacred association from inspiring English sources

The organisation recognised "a coherent, extensive and high quality record of ritual practices relating to hunter-gather communities over at least two millennia" (criterion iii), and "links between ritual and economic practices in the apparent sacred association of the land adjacent to an aquifer" according to criterion V of the cultural selection criteria.

Sacred associations played a part in profane gardens as well.

This is a land dense with sacred associations and mythical stories.

His task was to immortalise scenes that were, as the Photographic News put it, "fraught with historic and sacred associations".

It's the lack of consideration that these tourists displayed that really stings, regardless of how much store you put by the volcano's sacred associations.

Myrtle, roses and lilies have sacred associations in Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 4, but Brother Lawrence is clearly not diluting his horticultural interests with spirituality.

"The halo of sacred associations was extensive enough to encompass Hejaz' [Saudi Arabia today] neighbors and to keep them isolated and insulated until a few decades ago.

Both the village and the nearest town, Shaoshan, were named for the local Shaoshan Mountain ("Music Mountain"), a prominent feature in the local landscape with sacred associations for the region's Buddhists.

This star quality of the Templars was due partly to their prominent role in the central movement of the times, the Crusades and the defense of the Crusader states in the East, where the Templars were surrounded by potent historical and sacred associations.

In Oborne's view this is undemocratic meddling: an MP's relationship with their association is sacred and if it goes wrong, it's their problem.

A sequence of sacred works presented in association with the University of York Chamber Choir produced sophisticated, polyphonic sounds that might have been heard in any Catholic European country towards the latter part of the 17th century – until the Arakaendars cut loose with a robust dialogue evoking a comic collision between conquistadors and natives at the birth of Jesus.