Sentences with phrase «became adherent»

The masses may form from pockets of the tympanic membrane, which became adherent to the inflamed middle ear mucosa.

Advances were made in winning fresh peoples and new territories to the Christian faith of the pagan barbarians who invaded the Mediterranean world from the North and Northeast all who permanently settled in that region became adherents of Christianity, although the conversion of some was de1 until after A.D. 950.

In Europe once Christianity became the state religion, paganism lost its secular support and the tendency was for people to become adherents of Christianity.

He had also become an adherent of Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy.

Not exact matches

All the while, the groupthink gathers adherents as its successes become harder to find.

Previously, when American paramilitary groups became convinced of the inevitability of official persecution, their most militant adherents shifted from a defensive to an offensive mind - set, unleashing terrorist violence.

The more juvenile the religion, the more likely some of the adherents will become radicals and try to force everyone to follow their rules.

By the thirties these voices became a major force in creating a new climate in which adherents of the earlier synthesis were increasingly on the defensive in intellectual circles.

This from a person who practices a religion that has millions of it's adherents everywhere calling for the death of anyone who draws their child touching, slave owning prophet, but is upset when new yorkers are mad about the building of a mosque (which as everyone knows, become hotbeds of islamic fundamentalist education) right next to the spot that your pathetic comrades killed thousands of innocent people.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

The peoples among whom Christianity had had adherents became either Buddhist or Moslem.

My third prediction is that the word «evangelical» will go the way of «fundamentalism» as its adherents become increasingly homogonous and as the word becomes associated with dogmatism regarding politics, science, women's roles, homosexuality, salvation, and biblical literalism.

What was formerly taken to be a peculiarity of «holiness» sects has become a reality in the mainline churches; indeed, it has been said that the fastest growing group in these churches is composed of adherents of just this charismatic position.

However, the task became complicated when reports from investigation of September 11 identified those involved in the terrorist acts as adherents of Islam, and alleged to be highly motivated by their religious teaching.

Yes, Paul became an ambitious apostle, but if not for Constantine, the period in which Christianity gained many Roman adherents would be a historical curiosity much like the period in which Mithra's cult became widespread.

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times.

Religion has enjoyed commanding «respect» for a long time now, and this expectation becomes even more vocal once people actually question ideas and practices of religious adherents.

«The prospect of State Senator Eric Schneiderman, an avid proponent of same - gender «marriage,» becoming the highest ranking law - enforcement official in New York state, raises the specter of thousands of Bible - adherents eventually becoming criminalized for their religious beliefs and practices.»

Legions of light - diet and vegetarian adherents feel justified in their choices because heavier food becomes unpalatable to them.15

First and foremost the strict Paleo adherents lay the ground rules by saying that any foods which need the process of cooking in order to become edible are stricken off the list.

It has since become a cult film and cinematic cause celebre, revered by its adherents and condemned by its detractors.

Amazon's Kindle, the market leader, is a featureless slab of utility tech with no more identity than a wood shaving, and the iPad, the Nook, the Sony Reader, and the Kobo Reader may have their adherents (my first gen iPad has recently become a must - have for car journeys with a precocious eighteen - month - old) but no one is seriously pushing the boundaries of the electronic book.

The Colonial Revival was national in its scope, but as a state rich in historic resources, Connecticut became inextricably linked with the movement, supplying both symbolic imagery and active adherents.

By 1911 Cubism attracted a long list of adherents and became the important international measuring stick against which all the modern art movements and important avant garde ideas were weighed.

[19] With her use of popular imagery in her art, she became an early adherent of the Pop art movement.

Though it was short - lived and did not attract many adherents, Synchromism became the first American avant - garde art movement to receive international attention.

In the decades since, art that critiques modernist abstraction has become a seemingly permanent fixture, always finding new adherents (not unlike pop music subcultures such as hardcore punk that devolved from radical statements to stylistic options), while Neo Geo, the movement that brought Halley to prominence, has been installed in nearly every art historical account of the period.

At the same time, climate talks have become a kind of umbrella for just about every international energy and development cause that failed to gain the long - term traction its adherents sought.

To possess an opinion is to them the same thing as to become a fanatical adherent of it and henceforth to lay it to their heart as a conviction.

The very base level of his idea is — Great works become paradigms because they were «sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adherents away from competing modes of scientific activity,» [to quote Kuhn] and «sufficiently open - ended to leave all sorts of problems for the redefined group of practitioners to resolve.»

Like all doomsday cults, its adherents become ever more shrill as the predicted apocalypse fails to materialise.

I do not know whether there is such a thing as deleterious man - made global warming, but I do know that it has become the new orthodoxy to such a degree that its adherents are now trying to silence their critics and would make the grand inquisitors of the past proud.

To see that the only empirical and observed evidence of climate sensitivity was tampered with in IPCC WG1 shows how perverted that organisation has become and how twisted are it's adherents.

It will become easier to start an organization to support a cause that has few, and physically dispersed, adherents.

>> I think it's very ironic that, as I see it, the core belief — call it the religion - of many of the «we can create, we have created, useful and becoming better, AI search algorithm for law» adherents IS < / b) the literal opposite of Mr. Semenoff's apparent belief.

I think it's very ironic that, as I see it, the core belief — call it the religion - of many of the «we can create, we have created, useful and becoming better, AI search algorithm for law» adherents are the literal opposite of Mr. Semenoff's apparent belief.