Sentences with phrase «on pain of death»

May I suggest to you that the image of the beast has already been formed, but that it only awaits the support of civil authorities to require its allegiance on pain of death.

Islam will have a real problem coming to grips with its basic textual dogma that all unbelievers are to be oppressed, and all pagans converted on pain of death.

First and foremost, greeks didn't just give up zeus on the spot, they were converted first by the romans on pain of death and later when the romans converted to christianity, there were still pagans, no one just looked at their beliefs, decided they were silly and changed.

«But if they were strong enough believers to refuse to deny Jesus on pain of death,» he said, «then God knows their hearts.»

In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.

What is new about the Twilight series, whose premise is that the heroine may not have physical relations with her vampire lover on pain of death, is not the theme itself: the same twisted sexuality pervades the whole tradition of literary pornography.

And in 1948 one million Jews were thrown out of Arab Muslim states on pain of death.

It is taboo (and risked on pain of death) to be «unclean» in the presence of deity; but if this is a primitive concept it still appears preferable to us to the all too common chumminess in the God - man relationship in popular religion of our own time.

So you can bounce between parties as much as you want in the United States until you decide to run for office... than you better be prepared to part with the party only on pain of death or (worse of an elected official) future political career.

If I was Queen of the Universe they would be publicly beaten as a warning to others and never allowed to come within ten miles of the creative process of a movie on pain of death.

We need look no further than Washington, DC, where a battle is now being waged between TNR advocates and conservationists who want to round up cats and take them to shelters (where the feral ones would be killed) and force owners of pet cats to keep them indoors on pain of death (death to the cats, not the owners, although sometimes one wonders).

«Nobody named Hideo Kojima has ever worked here, or been banned from returning to here on pain of death.»

Something like 90 % of the Tamils polled wanted peace - their children are press ganged into the militias on pain of death.

For all its many good points (and, BTW, you can find some good points in just about any belief system), Islam allows for no other religion and once you have professed that faith, you can never leave it on pain of death.

Made a prisoner by the Emperor, he was ordered, on pain of death, to remove the supposedly objectionable passages from the Granth and to include praises of Mohammad and the Hindu gods.

Even so, on pain of death no one, man or beast, may approach too closely to the Presence (vss.

The game of rollerball hinges on a lack of individualism, on pain of death, to keep the masses in line.

On pain of death, I couldn't tell you which one is most beautiful.

On pain of death, I will not disclose the name or city of the firm, but the firm thinks there «is room» for the increase.