Sentence examples for the power of curing from inspiring English sources

Their leaders won converts by practising martial arts in the market place, claiming to be possessed by local deities that gave them the power of curing the sick.

7. Natural consistency arises from the choice of such situations for temples as possess the advantages of salubrious air and water; more especially in the case of temples erected to Æsculapius, to the Goddess of Health, and such other divinities as possess the power of curing diseases.

In the film they tell their stories to a doctor, who is a con fessional figure more important than any religious one, since he also has the power of cure.' Babenco spent two years turning the book's disjointed chapters into a narrative.

Now, he is a portly president who portrays himself as a devout Muslim with miraculous powers, such as the power to cure people of Aids and infertility.

"This food culture, spreading across the land like the bloom on a soft-ripened cheese, has the power to cure a lot of what ails us".

They believed in the power of "mind-cures," in the efficacy of determination and grit.

In a similar vein, immunoPET might help clarify the power of different cure strategies.

Here too is a 13th-century Arabic text titled "The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence"; the animal it illustrates has many attributes of the unicorn, including the power to cure illness, but it's called a karkadann and has a spotted coat and a branched horn that looks more like an antler.

These statements suggest great faith in the power of science to cure social ills.

The book is suffused with longing and bereavement and the power of writing to cure and console.

One morning, however, he pulls up at their door and after a few customary "jokes" (one involves the power of semen to cure acne) and a little light sexual harassment, he announces that the house will shortly be completely renovated.