Sentences with phrase «gain adherents»

In days of trouble and confusion, when bread lines were long, when the unemployed walked the streets, when people were starving, the advocates of a short - cut by revolution might have a chance to gain adherents.

But in spite of all apparent failures, dogmatic definitions arose, and precisely in their long - lasting continuance contrasted with the always short - lived heresies which flourish and gain adherents for a while but then fade into obscurity.

I think it's gaining adherents,» Cramer said.

Clara Shih, the chief executive of Hearsay, said that her social media gospel was gaining adherents among top executives.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

Christianity was reintroduced into Japan and rapidly gained adherents.

Today the Mauch viewpoint is gaining adherents, for not only is the 1975 Foli a crackerjack player, he is a notably steadier human being.

Meanwhile, various plans to go beyond the governor's proposal have been gaining adherents in the state legislature.

While active investing is what investors have traditionally done and most still do, passive investing or index investing is gaining adherents and has had the upper hand in articles in academia and the media, including at this magazine.

Factor investing has rightfully gained adherents among investors seeking superior risk - adjusted returns.

One possible way to not be indicted for a «politics of fear» approach is to take the «politics of hope» approach — I recommend Paul Hawken's recent «Blessed Unrest,» which not only offers an education about the background of the sustainability movement, but which also expresses the certainty that such movements are gaining adherents and growing worldwide.

FS's cadmium - telluride solar cells technology is definitely gaining adherents in both technical and commercial side of the industry.

It may be tempting to dismiss all this as a fringe movement, but it has been rapidly gaining adherents.

Not exact matches

Both Bitcoin and its blockchain are gaining imitators as well as adherents, along with plenty of critics, including Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co..

Proposals for transcending the nation - state with a world government have been around for centuries, and gained many adherents following the catastrophic breakup of the world system in World War I.

His arguments are considerable, but there is no question that this aspect of Hartshorne's neoclassical theism has not gained many adherents.

The AG's U.S. division grew more than twice as fast as the American population in 2012 (1.8 percent vs. 0.7 percent), gaining almost 54,000 adherents to now number nearly 3.1 million worshipers at more than 12,700 churches (up 127 from 2011).

(Worldwide, the AG gained nearly 1 million adherents in 2012 to surpass 66 million.)

Last week, the AG reported a gain of 48 churches and about 45,000 adherents (those who consider an AG church to be their church home) in 2015, bringing its total number of American adherents to 3.2 million.

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.

Readers will gain insight into how a fringe and oft «maligned group that threatened to consume itself in a «fury of charismatic fire» grew to include 500 million adherents worldwide.

Critics say it's just training the parents, but it's being done all over the world and gaining an increasing number of adherents here in the United States.

Religion can have a role in political debate, but its adherents must stop trying to gain special privileges.

But in this moment, with scientific success being in part a simple function of math — is an idea gaining or losing adherents?

While I think 5 / 3/1 is the better routine (a notion certain to be shared by its thousands of adherents), my current scheme has been working very well for me, and I'm making further gains than I did last year.

I'm of course referring to the «no pain, no gain» adherents who take every set to failure every workout.

Despite the drenching antireform downpour, charter schools are gaining in respect, numbers, and political adherents, mainly because they are digging deep roots in local communities.

By late 1923, Hitler and his adherents had gained enough critical mass to move against the political establishment, which it did in the infamous «beer hall putsch.»

If you go this route (and you will not be alone, as the raw movement is gaining more and more adherents), be sure your ingredients are absolutely fresh, watch out for bones, and keep a close eye on your French bulldog's total needs.

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.

This will be tested in the form of whether adherents to schools rejecting core aspects can and will gain admittance to institutional science and other groupings.

By the 1960's, when Child and Youth Care was gaining public credibility with the publication of Cottage Six (Polsky, 1962), and The Other 23 Hours (Trieschman, Whittaker and Brendtro, 1969), this debate, essentially was a fight between adherents to a psychoanalytic model and a learning theory model, had taken on the characteristics of a «holy war» (p. 9).

By the 1960à cents â «¬ â «cents s, when Child and Youth Care was gaining public credibility with the publication of Cottage Six (Polsky, 1962), and The Other 23 Hours (Trieschman, Whittaker, & Brendtro, 1969), this debate, essentially was a fight between adherents to a psychoanalytic model and a learning theory model, had taken on the characteristics of a «holy warà cents â «¬  (p. 9).