Sentences with phrase «energies of their adherents»
Rather, each is a kind of pseudopod into which the Jewish energies of their adherents have flowed.
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«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.
A leaked draft of the encyclical — a special type of edict used to define key priorities for the Catholic church and its 1.3 billion adherents — emphasises moral responsibilities to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and calls for changes in lifestyle and energy use to avoid the «unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem».
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.