Sentence examples for zealous emphasis from inspiring English sources

And of course there was a zealous emphasis on athletics that nurtured Paterno.

For Krzyzewski, the 82-72 victoverover Arizona meant more than joining John Wooden, Adolph Rupp and Bob Knight as the only coaches with three or more national titles; it meant that zealous emphasis on excellence, responsibility and high performance was the right way to make himself happy.

Historians credit this to his zealous personality, his criticism of the church hierarchy, his emphasis on direct experience of God, and some of his unorthodox teachings including his belief that an unordained monk who had the direct experience of God was empowered to absolve others of their sins.

The plan noted that an "initiative to proactively open state park and forest land to horizontal drilling/fracturing will be met with zealous resistance by environmental activist opponents, who are skilled propagandists" (emphasis theirs).

While the emphasis is usually on the perils of over-zealous political correctness ("What's it up to?"; "What's it stopping?"; "What are the killjoys and nit-pickers trying to ban now?"), clearly there's a brand of political incorrectness that needs to check its factory settings.

This emphasis on individual action made Nakae's philosophy popular among the zealous Japanese reformers and patriots of the 19th and 20th centuries.

We strove to avoid zealous over-interpretation and aside from consistency checks (usually with related questions) retained an emphasis on people's own words and statements.

Zealous pragmatist?

Most were zealous Zionists.

They were overly zealous".

[from zealous.] With passionate ardour.