Sentence examples for sacred cause from inspiring English sources

How deeply dedicated are we, in and out of government, to our sacred cause?

Cinque's case, and that of his companions, became a sacred cause for the abolitionists.

Cracking down on gun violators is virtually a sacred cause for the mayor.

The caricature, though deployed in the service of a sacred cause, is nonetheless repellent.

Like Mr. Gibson, Mr. Bush is whipping up intolerance but calling it a sacred cause.

Ward quickly understood his mission: to take a sacred cause and turn it into a building project.

Life in Israel today makes one long for a naked public square: politics without God, without myth and fantasy, without eternal enemies, without sacred causes or holy ground.

Sacred Causes: Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda by Michael Burleigh 576pp, Harper Press, £25 In his address to the UN General Assembly in September last year the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, welcomed the return of religion as a factor in world affairs.

But she criticized Wall Street by name and by specific practices (her Web site has a section called "Rein in Wall Street"), and criticized Uber and AirbnB, sacred causes in Silicon Valley, without naming them, by saying that their advent is "raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future".

Enrapt, people become subdued and an overtone of the sacred causes many eyes to well up.

"Secular" sources of violence have always been played down in favor of sacred causes, whether the Reformation, Puritan fanaticism, or Catholic anti-modernism.