Sentence examples for temporal affairs from inspiring English sources

Paolo Sarpi, the republic's state theologian, mounted an effective defense by arguing for state sovereignty in temporal affairs.

Temporal affairs intruded immediately as the departing fans encountered an intimidating group of American Humvees and soldiers, mounting a surprise midnight check of passing cars.

The deacons, over whom the pastor is also the moderator, care for the poor and any other temporal affairs assigned to them.

In the organization of the church, each self-supporting congregation (parish) elects its lay governing board (vestry) for temporal affairs and its rector as spiritual leader.

In the Assembly's view, however, nationalization of church property gave the state responsibility for regulating the church's temporal affairs, such as salaries, jurisdictional boundaries, and modes of clerical appointment.

After Bahubali won a duel with his half brother for control of the kingdom, he is believed by the Jains to have realized the transience of temporal affairs and renounced the world.

The main idea of diachronic reduction is not merely that reduction is a temporal affair but that they consist in the replacement of one theory by another theory, such that one theory (the reducing one) becomes the successor of the reduced theory (Dupré 1993; Rosenberg 2006).

Both the involvement of the church in secular affairs and the participation of temporal rulers in the Crusades can be read as variations on this theme.

Those are basic "temporal" or seasonal considerations.

The human soul, we are told, is a temporal rather than eternal affair - more like "a holiday in a friend's cottage, or a book we've borrowed from the library".

The temporal being is the state of affairs designated by infinitival expressions like 'being a man'hominemnessesse') or 'being white'essesse album' that is, the object of the act of judging.