Sentence examples for to be cleansed from from inspiring English sources
"But they are very long-lived, and it will take a few decades for them to be cleansed from the atmosphere".
For Plato, theology described the mythical, which he allowed may have a temporary pedagogical significance that is beneficial to the state but is to be cleansed from all offensive and abstruse elements with the help of political legislation.
And he wonders, powerfully, if "deep down, we really are a species obsessed with its own self-destruction — one that knows it deserves to be cleansed from the world, by fire this time".
Thus Nazis regarded Jews and Gypsies as disease vectors, viruses contaminating Aryan society, which needed to be cleansed from such contamination - a metaphor that is repeated by perpetrators of genocide as widely apart as Cambodia and Rwanda.
That was called out as a particular sin to be cleansed from our site.
Mr Alloush has previously used heavily sectarian language about the Alawite and Shiite ethnic groups and called for them to be "cleansed" from greater Syria.
I can't think of a healthier sign in a democracy – that we don't allow our problems to be cleansed, China-style, from the sight of the powerful, but leave them there, in full view, demanding to be dealt with.
Though they can essentially be cleansed from the skin, the procedure is painful and an outline is often visible to the keen eye after removal.
The theme of the communion of saints refers to the church as a whole, including both the living and the dead (the souls in purgatory a place or condition for those who must be cleansed from lesser sins and in heaven).
Such proposals assume that some genotypes represent "jewels in the genome" (Sikela 2006) while others constitute a form of expensive "toxic waste" that could and should be cleansed from the gene pool (Buchanan, Brock, Wikler, and Daniels 2000).
King has called homosexuality "the downfall of society" and once wrote that AIDS could be cleansed from America, "if this nation's current purveyors of perversion would refrain from committing sodomy".
