Sentence examples for self-ordained from inspiring English sources

His father was a self-ordained African Methodist Episcopal preacher.

One by one, Tom Radney represented the self-ordained preacher as those deaths were investigated.

McAllister's self-ordained position as curator of that list translated into -- cha-ching!

Invariably, some self-ordained truth teller will stand up to quote non sequiturs about black-on-black violence.

"They come in geeks and go out Jedi warriors," said Mr. Michael, a founder of the group and a self-ordained Jedi grandmaster.

No police detectives were in evidence, though; only a few construction workers and a couple of self-ordained protectors of Rao's good name, muttering that it must be a slow news day.

Amid the Conservatives' self ordained mission to rid the country of poor people, it's striking how seldom they bother to consider where social inequality and poverty originate.

He's the guy who discovered, nurtured and dismissed Marilyn Manson; who recorded a noir-rock benchmark – 1994's 5m‑shifting The Downward Spiral – in the house where Sharon Tate was murdered; and who survived a heroin overdose in 2000 in the grip of one of rock's most pre-ordained self-destructions.

How will Huckabee, the ordained minister, and the self-styled "Christian" candidate (where does this leave all the others?) balance his sectarian religious beliefs with his obligation to maintain the neutrality of government, as required by the Constitution?

Kesha is a vegetarian and an ordained minister, having been ordained online.

Either that, or we blame the unique way America's near-religious self-mythologizing of itself as a divinely-ordained "exceptional" nation helps to create an inordinate amount of space for toxic demagogues to operate during times of great economic stress or global insecurity.