Sentence examples for venerated because of from inspiring English sources

Of special and long-lasting influence in the history of the interpretation of myth was Euhemerism (named after Euhemerus, a Greek writer who flourished about 300 bce), according to which certain gods were originally great people venerated because of their benefactions to mankind.

Of special and long-lasting influence in the history of the interpretation of myth was Euhemerism (named after Euhemerus, a Greek writer who flourished about 300 bce), according to which certain gods were originally great people venerated because of their benefactions to humankind.

In this respect, as a king regarded as saintly for his life while ruling in contrast to a king who gives up the kingship in favour of religious life, or who is venerated because of the manner of his death Bede's portrayal of Oswald stands out as unusual.

She presents the model of a sublime pativratha, a woman who is completely devoted to her husband, and is especially venerated because the object of her wifely veneration was Ravana, a man with many unfortunate faults and evil tendencies, someone widely regarded as a demon.

But feminist writers who admire these cults also relish the fact that classic Christian theology the idea that Mary is to be venerated because she bore the Son of God seems in such cases to have been half-forgotten.

These people are being venerated because the new technology has made them vehicles to maintaining the image of youth".

Ruth is still venerated because he combined extraordinary ability with panache and personality, in the epicenter of New York City, at the apex of the Roaring Twenties.

Emily especially was venerated, because only she, as a baby, had witnessed her father's horrifying death.

The great goddess (as in the ancient Middle East and India) is venerated principally because of her omnipotence, especially her power over life.

The 1945 report is venerated in part because of the overriding importance to scientists of its subject matter, that is, federal funding of university research.

He is venerated by millions of Catholics only because their leaders lack the courage to admit that he was not saintly but spineless.