Sentence examples for section of the congregation from inspiring English sources

Yikes: she's pointing straight at my section of the congregation and my mother-in-law was a bird-like figure who weighed seven stone on a good day.

In December he was booed by sections of the congregation at a memorial service for Nelson Mandela in Soweto, the vast urban sprawl on the edge of Johannesburg.That was but one sign of a deeper disenchantment.

They became a part of the congregation.

This is perhaps the most extreme reaction there has ever been to an article on Comment is free: the death threats were the response of a section of his congregation to a piece he wrote here defending the truth of evolution.

Writing church bylaws: A church's bylaws will include a section about the congregation's minister.

Wagner did not identify the priest during her speech, but she noted that he was a section head in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

There was a marching band raising hairs on the back of the necks of the congregation; one section of the audience erupted into Zulu-style song and dance; another rose to chant "We want David!" (it's all right, Miliband indicated from the stage, you've got him).

Since they could not shoot all over the world, Madonna wanted the video to have an "omnipresent feel", with the middle section of the song generating a sense of congregation.

He said he did not know whether the question would fall to the new panel, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – the Vatican department that co-ordinates church trials for clergy accused of child abuse – or the congregation for bishops, another section of the Curia.

To help solve them the Pope may create a special section of the Secretariat of State, or perhaps even a special Congregation.

What is the mood of the congregation?