Sentence examples for western teachings from inspiring English sources
An Islamic extremist group calling itself Boko Haram ("Western teachings are sinful") kills hundreds of people a year with car bombs and in commando raids.
But he was attracted to Western teachings, and, unusually, he was encouraged even by his family to stray somewhat from his Confucian obligation to serve his kin.
One study, for example, has shown how the Chinese Chu Shih-chieh triangle anticipated by more than three centuries the highly similar arrangement of numerals by Pascal that holds sway in many Western teachings of probability theory.
Some of them, waving the banner of Islam, have seized on legitimate local grievances fuelled by poverty, discrimination and the mismanagement of corrupt governments.In northern Nigeria an extreme Islamist group calling itself Boko Haram ("Western teachings are sinful") recruits ill-educated, jobless and angry Muslim youngsters to wage a campaign of violence and murder.
There is no value in these western teachings.
Our model drew from Eastern and Western teachings on mindfulness and compassion to identify five dimensions that could be applied to parent child interactions.
In Western Christian teachings, meditation is believed to involve the inherent action of the Holy Spirit to help the meditating Christian understand the deeper meanings of the Word of God.
Few of its adherents actually accept the name – which loosely translated from the local Hausa language as "western education is forbidden" – and prefer the official Arabic title which translates as "the union for propagation of the Prophet's teachings and jihad".
More promising, perhaps, is the contemporary western turn to Buddhist teachings, which offer an atheistic interpretation of suffering.
And in Ishafan, the country's top tourist attraction, female musicians have been banned from performing.At the heart of the debate over women is Iran's unease about Western culture overtaking Islamic teachings.
On the other hand, lack of suitable circumstances for permanent marriage, as well as the adverse teachings of Western culture, have resulted in sexual relationships and behaviors beyond rational and religious restrictions of Islamic societies".
