Sentence examples for sacred statues from inspiring English sources

"They are not primitives who destroy sacred statues or blow up planes," Mr. Serban wrote in a program essay.

Potrang Marpo (1694; Red Palace) houses several chapels, sacred statues, and the tombs of eight Dalai Lamas; it remains a major pilgrimage site for Tibetan Buddhists.

When in July 1562 traces of human sacrifice were found in a cave containing sacred statues of the Maya, Landa in his religious zeal conducted an auto-da-fé at Maní.

Elected general by the troops, he effected the recall of Alcibiades, a former general accused of having profaned the hermae (small sacred statues) of Athens, and assisted him in several successful naval campaigns.

In 2011, the household of a friend of Halifax's — in Humla, a district west of Dolpo — was robbed of its family gods, sacred statues that had been with the household for many generations.

This cult has its sacred statues, its icons and martyrs such as a girl who is said to have drowned while trying to save images of her leaders from a flood.Venerating the Kims is only one part of juche, whose core principle is self-reliance: the idea that North Korea is under perpetual threat and must therefore pursue economic and military self-sufficiency so as to survive.

Each bit of the narrative rings true and alarming: the girl in the pink tracksuit pushing a trolley with a shattered sacred statue; the Russian woman huddled by the lockers at the bus station who is making a run for it.

The Elves' sacred statue, however, has been stolen by the Dwarves, angering Jewel, the Thieving Hero, who wanted to steal it for herself.

Meanwhile at the Dwarf construction site, Gnarl recommends that the Overlord stash a few minions inside the Elf sacred statue and allow Jewel to take it in order to follow her to her homeland, the Ruborian Desert.

Each year, in a sacred rite, statues of the goddess Durga, made from dirt gathered from prostitutes' thresholds, where men are thought to have cast off their virtue, are taken in procession to the Ganges where worshipers look on as they dissolve in the muddy water.

In 1700 he declared himself king, and in 1705 he moved the Prabang Buddha, sacred religious statue and symbol of royalty, from Luang Prabang to Vientiane.