Sentence examples for source of glory from inspiring English sources
They are an outlet for heroism, a reason for lucrative taxation and, with luck, a source of glory.
Mining has long been a source of glory and ghosts in Colorado's Uravan mineral belt, especially during the cold war, before the industry crashed in the 1980s.
Her body is a source of glory and terror, beauty and castigation; it belongs to her deeply, and to everyone else, too.
With Mr. Kohl already being blamed for Germany's unemployment crisis, and with his proposals for tax reform blocked by the Social Democrats in Parliament, the euro fight threatens to steal the Chancellor's one remaining source of glory.
John Deutch was the fourth D.C.I. to arrive at Langley in as many years, and he made it clear from the outset he was going to fix whatever he thought broken, beginning with the directorate of operations -- the clandestine side of the house, commonly called the D.O., which has been the major source of glory and disaster throughout the history of the C.I.A.
Robotic spaceflight and space-based astronomy, using a new generation of telescopes, may be the likeliest source of NASA glory for the next decade or so.
Those nuns with fine voices could use them daily (convent choirs were a source of great glory to a city like Ferrara); others played instruments and even in some cases composed music or wrote plays.
It should have been, probably was, a major source of satisfaction for Philip and extraordinary glory in the eyes of his fellow Macedonians that the Greeks should have done this.
Grace is the essence of God's holiness, glory and the source of eschatological hope the hope that allows us to lament on our wrong-doings, yet prevents us from the despair in the darkness.
Common examples are money, victory, glory, survival, a source of power, or a potential threat, or it may simply be something entirely unexplained.
Of the last generation of great Washington restaurants, Cowen writes, "The Source, Zengo, Sei, Palena, Oyamel, Hook, Equinox and Central Michel Richard... all had their moments of glory".
