Sentence examples for true martyr from inspiring English sources
"He's a true martyr to the cause of courageous journalism," Shekhar Gupta, a prominent Indian journalist, wrote on Twitter.
(Read Archbishop Becket's Christmas sermon from TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral: the true martyr "no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr").
By the age of 19, Joan had helped reverse the outcome of the Hundred Years' war, crowned a king, conquered numerous cities, attempted to escape from prison by jumping from a high tower, successfully sparred with learned theological scholars at her trial and bravely died the death of a true martyr.
The letter continues by asserting that Mr. Obama is "[playing] a very dangerous game so [he] can look like a true martyr".
True martyrs, all agreed, were not people with psychological problems.
There are no monuments to them, there is no state recognition of them, but they are true martyrs.
Diallo, Bell, and Edwards need Prof. Gates, because they are forever silent, and without question, the true martyrs of racial profiling.
After all, Islamic State fighters not only target and kill Christians (who are the true martyrs in this battle) but they indiscriminately murder Muslims as well.
Although the number of verifiably true martyrs' tales has fallen, and estimates of the total casualty rate have been reduced, some modern writers are less skeptical than Gibbon of the severity of the persecution.
In February 1967 Mr. Sanders appeared on the cover of Life magazine as a leader of "the Other Culture," but he was perhaps both a little too scholarly and a little too normal to become a true sixties martyr-symbol.
