Sentence examples for statement of religious from inspiring English sources

They both refer to the principle of modesty, and for some are a statement of religious and cultural identity.

In 1875 the first stone was laid for the Sacré Coeur basilica in Montmartre, designed as a statement of religious renewal, national atonement and devotion to Rome.

In February, 2009, Ziad Baroud — a prominent member of Lebanon's civil society who had become the minister of the interior — released a memorandum permitting citizens to remove the statement of religious affiliation from their civil-registry documents.

In February, 2009, Ziad Baroud a prominent member of Lebanon's civil society who had become the minister of the interior released a memorandum permitting citizens to remove the statement of religious affiliation from their civil-registry documents.

As Ms. Ahlquist explained to The Times about her response to the prayer: "It seemed like it was saying, every time I saw it, 'You don't belong here.' " The kindness, friendship and other values the prayer champions are universal, but a statement of religious belief has no place in a public high school auditorium.

We're better able now to see that the achievement of Cham art lies precisely in the way it transforms the visual substance of another culture, or cultures, into a persuasive new idiom, one that comes across as an exultantly confident statement of religious and political power.

Before things got too Days of Our Lives, I grabbed my cousin and said, "She's just really stoned, dumbass, you just saw her blast that J with us!" She calmed herself, as my mom had, but there was still the critical mess of my aunt lying there, now wailing vague statements of religious devotion.

As you recall the Independent saying that Kate "enters a zombie state of cipher-like spokesperson for the married woman as she delivers her duty speech before placing her hand beneath Petruchio's foot", you wonder could this be a statement on religious brainwashing of women into "willing" subjugation?

The latest person to express outrage at this industry's flagrant disregard for common decency is the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who writes in the foreword to his first Lent book that the crucifix has become a fashion statement, devoid of religious meaning.

Cardinal Dolan's seemingly anodyne expression of ecumenism last week was actually a pointed reference to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' "Statement on Religious Liberty" released in opposition to the Affordable Care Act's H.H.S. mandate; it was in fact a slightly altered version of the statement's title: "Our First, Most Cherished Liberty".

THE best line at last week's Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Uganda was the unwitting statement of local religious leaders against gay rights.