Sentence examples for tithe from inspiring English sources

Far from being a loss to be regretted, however, this heavenly tithe is an indication that all is well.

With some notable exceptions, ranging from Virginia Woolf and Ho Chi Minh to Tony Blair and Georg Lukacs, a Marxist critic, people gave up on Scott.The Scots, who had once gushed that "Cervantes has done much for Spain and Shakespeare for England, but not a tithe of what Sir Walter Scott has accomplished for us," now rejected Scott and turned to Rabbie Burns as their literary hero.

EU officials want to maintain rules whereby computer users pay a small tithe on digital products to collection societies.

Close to 1 billion PCs are now in use and because Windows and Office sit on nearly all of them, the programs are the inescapable tithe on belonging to the information society.The question for Microsoft is whether it can continue to collect these dues.

Then war would end and Americans would be richer, because Islam (he claims) has no income taxes except the 2.5% tithe known as zakat.

Many of the popular new pastors claim the gift of prophecy and teach a "gospel of prosperity", which encourages their disciples to pay a tithe (10% of their income) to the church in return for even greater riches from God.The pastors' wealth raises eyebrows.

She suggests that the rich should tithe their incomes and their campaign contributions, with the money to go to private non-profit outfits helping the poor, and she provides a list of associations for readers to call right away, while they feel fired up.Mr Rauch is less sanguine.

Mormons are supposed to "tithe"—that is, give 10% of their income to the church.

Likening an mp3 tax to a tithe on oxygen, a New York music industry professional puts the problem simply:[W]hen we're still at an age when companies are constantly battling illegal downloading, taxing mp3 purchases might not be a great idea.

A tithe-hunting preacher, Augustus Omiti, is holding an all-night vigil at a shack church with a sturdy gate.

This is not easy, because the author and actor lived a somewhat detached life: a respected tithe-owning country gentleman in Stratford, perhaps, but a rather rootless artist in London.