Sentence examples for seek to purify from inspiring English sources

Upon assuming the office of Secretary of the Interior, Morton promised he would seek to "purify the environment".

Lenny sought to purify the word "nigger", and made a huge rhapsody repeating it.

The moon told her that she was seeking to purify herself by giving rein to impossibility, then it urged her to jump.

He sought to purify it by eliminating words borrowed from other languages and enlarging its stock from the popular dialect and from Swedish words that had become obsolete.

There's an incredible amount of mystical and spiritual imagery throughout, Beyoncé swimming through water or walking through fire, seeking to purify her troubled soul, negotiating between wrath and peace after being betrayed by her man.

The last emperor able to dominate the papacy, he was a powerful advocate of the Cluniac reform movement that sought to purify the Western church.

In recent times, cultural revivalists (see Wednesday's diary) have sought to purify this faith which they call Meitei Marup of its Hindu taint.

This group of priests strove to revitalize the church by bringing about closer contact with the mass of the faithful, and they also sought to purify religious books and rituals from accidental errors and Roman Catholic influences.

Founded by the Arabian scholar Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, this form of Salafi Islam sought to purify the religion by returning it to its original principles.

Salafism seeks to purify Islam of non-Islamic influences and practices.

In contrast the larger Islamist restoration movement seeks to purify the Muslim World of corrupt and apostate tyrants.