Sentence examples for solemn rules from inspiring English sources
Is the greater good served by a noble project if it involves the flouting of solemn rules?
The result is oddly unemotional, as if a vicious game were being played by solemn rules, with barely a flicker of interest in the characters' moral plight.
His Rule is concerned with a life spent wholly in community, and among his contributions to the practices of the monastic life none is more important than his establishment of a full year's probation, followed by a solemn vow of obedience to the Rule as mediated by the abbot of the monastery to which the monk vowed a lifelong residence.
The silver pen was used by Lord Carson in 1912 to sign – together with 237,368 Ulster men – the solemn Covenant of defiance against the Home Rule Bill.
The rules and infringements of this ancient sport are of a solemn complexity, but all are founded on the fundamental desire of one person to treat another as a tea bag.
At the signing ceremony inside Egypt's intelligence headquarters, men from Mr. Abbas's Palestinian Authority, which runs the West Bank, and from Hamas, which rules Gaza — who had for four years viewed one another as solemn enemies — embraced and even joked.
With all the solemn reality shows around, it's nice to see one group flagrantly breaking the rules and having a grand old time.
PLANNED as a solemn celebration of national reconciliation, the 50th anniversary of Hungary's failed uprising against Soviet rule has turned into a bitter farce, the victim of the country's savagely polarised politics.
As Pickett and I worked our way to Room 303, abandoning cameras with the guard until the judge ruled on whether or not we could bring them into the courtroom, the solemn power of the justice system was evident.
