Sentences with phrase «exercised over his followers»

He exercised over his followers a remarkable power which often resulted in transformations of character and even in physical healing.

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Islam exercises huge control over its followers, praying 5 times a day is but one example and is extreme to say the last.

Marrying prodigiously and with virtual impunity (the leader of the largest fundamentalist church took seventy - five «plural wives,» several of whom were wed to him when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties), fundamentalist prophets exercise absolute control over the lives of their followers, and preach that any day now the world will be swept clean in a hurricane of fire, sparing only their most obedient adherents.