Sentences with phrase «loss of adherents»

Dislike it as we may, they have weathered the storms without splintering, but at the expense of loss of adherents and at great cost to people's well - being.

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It is well known that the serious decline in membership of the «mainline,» or liberal, branches of American Protestantism is largely due to the loss of a substantial portion of their adherents who were born after World War II.