Sentence examples for severely religious from inspiring English sources

Her mother was a Methodist preacher, a severely religious woman who made extra money by cleaning house for a white Tryon family; her father, who had started off as an entertainer, worked at whatever the circumstances required.

It's no surprise that, besides Scorsese, the filmmaker who has made the quest for secular ecstasy his subject, his problem, the core of his entire splendid career, is one who came to the cinema from a severely religious childhood and who became one of Scorsese's crucial collaborators: Paul Schrader.

The United States has dropped Vietnam from its list of nations that severely violate religious freedom.

He started to retire from the pulpit, when he wheeled about and added rather severely, "A religious song".

Her project AfroOdyssey IV: 100 Years Later captures some of her impressions and feelings related to queer life in Nigeria, impacted severely by religious fanaticism, equally practiced by Christians and Muslims in Nigeria.

Anyone who breaks the law is dealt with severely by the religious police, the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

(Such ceremonies would happen, of course, before the Chinese invaded Tibet in 1959, severely disrupting its religious life and causing both the Dalai Lama and the Sakya Trizin to flee to India).

The government is also moving ahead with a controversial package of four laws that would severely limit minorities' religious, marriage and reproductive rights.

The government of Vietnam "continued to expand control of all religious activities, severely restrict independent religious practice and repress individuals and religious groups... ......There are lots of global issues, from climate change to drug-trafficking, which need to be discussed in all-inclusive global institutions in the hope of finding practical solutions.

Thousands more arrive from overseas, including many from countries where freedom of religious expression is severely curtailed.

This undertaking is directly at odds with the kingdom's religious establishment, which severely limits women's rights and rejects coeducation and robust liberal inquiry as unthinkable.