Sentence examples for under protestant from inspiring English sources

You're doing what 17th-century English Catholics living under Protestant oppression called "equivocating".

At home, the Kasner family played Monopoly and read Western newspapers, brought in under Protestant church protection.

In 1535 he entered St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied classics under the versatile humanist John Cheke and came under Protestant influence.

Exploiting the hurt religious feelings of the Roman Catholic population under Protestant occupation and organizing Polish Lithuanian military leaders in the Tyszowce Confederation, John II Casimir Vasa managed to regain ground in 1656.

An 18th-century English song, "The Vicar of Bray", tells of a country clergyman who changed his allegiance with the times, Romish under James II, strongly Protestant under the Hanoverians, through every other point of the ecclesiological compass.

The question of her legitimacy was a key concern: although she was technically illegitimate under both Protestant and Catholic law, her retroactively declared illegitimacy under the English church was not a serious bar compared to having never been legitimate as the Catholics claimed she was.

After attending Scottish universities and the University of Paris, Melville left for Geneva in 1569, where he studied under the Protestant Reformer Theodore Beza.

By Josephine Daskam Bacon The New Yorker, May 30 , 1931 P. 18Letter to Bishop Manning, a mild satire on the commercialized he has established under the Protestant Episcopal Church of America.

In retirement, O'Reilly complained to a board member that "You have to play under a Protestant to know what it's like".

In persuading his party to take part in new political arrangements under which Protestants, long the dominant force in Ulster politics, share power with the Catholic minority, Mr. Trimble has transformed its stance from a rigid one of surrendering as little authority as possible to one that accommodates compromise.

But under the fervently Protestant Edward VI the Bible became central to both private and public worship.