Sentence examples for upon the altar of from inspiring English sources

"I have sworn upon the altar of God," its hero vows, paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson, "eternal hostility against every fucking form of tyranny".

The baton of human progress has been laid down upon the altar of Candy Crush Saga, and the kids these days just don't care.

How prescient was Thomas Jefferson when writing to Dr. Benjamin Rush in 1800: "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man".

The filing included the line "Fazzio's fate will be decided upon the altar of company loyalty," and one of Mencken1951's online flames noted, "He has paid homage at the altar of political corruption".

Along the frieze in the interior dome is a quotation from Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man".

The letter's grandiloquent style ("so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom") is less typical of Lincoln than of Hay, who could summon a playful version of it for a description of Civil War Washington as "a congeries of hovels, inharmoniously sewn with temples".

The responsibility of keeping the holiday's traditions seem to be coming full circle to rest once again on American families who made the ultimate sacrifice upon the altars of freedom.

And it is told, also, that at Athens they erected the altar of Peace upon this occasion, and decreed particular honours to Callias, who was employed as ambassador to procure the treaty.

THE ALTAR OF BONES, by Philip Carter.

I bow at the altar of Tarkovsky.

The one and only altar those men worshiped at was the altar of hate.