Sentence examples for sacred importance from inspiring English sources
As the God in his sermons became more abstract, he retained the habit of preaching about the sacred importance of seemingly secular topics like generosity.
To another witness — Mrs. Joan Bennett, a Fellow of Girton and the distinguished author of books on George Eliot and Virginia Woolf — the judge was unexpectedly sharp when she talked of Lawrence's holding that "marriage not in the legal sense" was of "almost sacred importance".
"It was in Crimea, in the ancient city of Chersonesus or Korsun, that Grand Prince Vladimir was baptised before bringing Christianity to Rus…this allows us to say that Crimea and Sevastopol have invaluable civilisational and even sacred importance for Russia.
Any belief in the sacred importance, eternal nature, or even relevance of the current status quo seems increasingly strange and blinkered.
The mountain is also of sacred importance to the Cowlitz and Yakama tribes that also historically lived in the area.
African influence is reflected in the sacred importance of zebu cattle and their embodiment of their owner's wealth, traditions originating on the African mainland.
While marriage equality is only one step on the path to fully equal treatment for those who identify as gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual, it is one of great importance, and, in our eyes, sacred import.
Forest-related cultural services (sacred places, importance for rites and tradition) were of relatively minor importance in all sites.
In this narrative it's God and country that are sacred -- hence the importance in conservative iconography of the Bible, the flag, the military and the founding fathers.
When The New York Times features in the Vows column a couple getting married in the cheese aisle of Fairway Market ("Arina Hinzen and Willie Gluckstern," Dec. 17), it lends cachet to the affair but trivializes its sacred nature and profound importance.
Some of the constructions in Palenque were built on the remains of other previous structures that most likely were sacred zones of great importance.
