Sentences with phrase «from oratory»

After a year in the position, 49 year old Adrian Wyles resigned from The Oratory School in South Oxfordshire because the role «just didn't suit him».

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Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

Troughs of sunlight angle into the oratory like green and pink bolts of cloth grandly flung down from the high, painted windows.

The provenance of some of this concern is perhaps unsurprising given that the crowds who came (over 6000 to the Oxford Oratory, for instance) included a minority of Senior Citizens, who might possibly remember the cult of relics from their youth, but was mainly made up by the young and middle - aged.

Ker makes the point about the rise of ecclesial communities which have always existed in the Church — from the time of St Antony the Great to that of St Philip Neri's Oratory.

The new school Oratory provided us with a fine venue but in future years I would have placed Confession in the context of a retreat away from the school.

This sort of language, and the rigidity of the oratory, led many to think that the revival of talk about evil must be derived from a revival of religion.

In terms of faith, apart from his love of the Mass, the time at the Oratory also gave him a strong grounding in Thomist metaphysics, and certainly this was a key element in the way he portrayed evil, death, immortality and many other things in his stories.

- From 1904 — 1911 because of the death of both of his parents Tolkien came under the guardianship of Father Francis Morgan at the Birmingham Oratory.

Seen simplistically, it has been the text for stirring oratory from many a pulpit on the evils of profanity, even though it has almost nothing to do with profanity.

Police protection and political oratory simply do not reach the level from which the problem arises.

Even when a gallant Frenchman with a gift for the sort of passionate oratory which reaches the heart stretched his hands toward the German group and cried, «We want to love you,» there was not a movement of applause from the Teutonic section.

Booming oratory is not a problem for Herr Klopp, but victory is something that has been largely evasive since his players came back from their first national service of the season in September — the Reds have won just three of their last 11 games in all competitions.

Most amusingly of all, Dennis Skinner felt that the most noteworthy piece of parliamentary oratory of the last one hundred years came from the member for Bolsover - one Dennis Skinner - in a filibuster against opponents of stem cell research.

The gentleman from New York sought recognition to deliver, without warning, one of the most extraordinary pieces of political oratory in recent memory.

Cuomo's speeches from that period — his 1984 Democratic Convention keynote, his Notre Dame lecture on abortion, his Harvard class - day address — were jewels of political oratory, as moving as they were erudite.

The on - site engineers at The London Oratory School have gone from being locked away in a server room managing back - end issues to being freed up to support the day - to - day IT needs of the school.

Pupils at Oratory School reach out to pupils from around the Thames Valley and beyond, bringing together young people from different countries enriching their experiences.

Erin is originally from South Dakota, where she reigned as the 2004 State Oratory Champion, and enjoys photographing her cats, grilling, fishing, and Mel Brooks.

The legend thus combines features characteristic of traditional folk - literature with others derived ultimately from the Bible and the panegyric oratory of the later Roman Empire, as mediated by the pattern works of Christian hagiography, Athanasius» Life of Antony (before 373) and Sulpicius Severus» Life of Martin.

Other tours could encompass the Latin Quarter, the Botanical Gardens (the largest after Kew Gardens in England), Mont Royal Park with the nearby magnificent St Joseph's Oratory — where the middle flight of steps is reserved for pilgrims ascending on their knees — and the islands of Sainte - Helene with its Biosphere (Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome from Expo ’67 now home to environmental themes) and Notre Dame which has a bizarre combination of both a Formula One track (which you can walk cycle or roller blade on) and hundreds of frisky groundhogs.

These oratories became the footstool for America's desire to obtain independence from the British.

It is the figures of speech, used in proper measure and appropriate context, that comprise not only a memorable line from a movie, but the key tools to effective writing and oratory.