Sentences with phrase «won adherents»

The gods and goddesses of subject peoples were widely worshipped throughout the empire and often won adherents simply because they were not closely identified with the state.

The fact that, in spite of its early association with that world and of the antagonism felt because of this seeming alliance, Christianity won some adherents from other cultures is evidence of the striking universality and vigor of the impulse which created it.

He argues that most negotiators are overly willing to compromise, and he blames this on the way that some win - win adherents prize «relationships» over getting the best possible deal — a style of negotiating that others, especially non-U.S. negotiators, go out of their way to exploit.

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Advances were made in winning fresh peoples and new territories to the Christian faith of the pagan barbarians who invaded the Mediterranean world from the North and Northeast all who permanently settled in that region became adherents of Christianity, although the conversion of some was de1 until after A.D. 950.

The failure of this ambitious attempt to fuse an evolutionary concept of nature with a high Christology and an orthodox Trinitarianism has won few adherents among either students of Christology or process thinkers, and has probably discouraged others from entering this thicket.

These words are more than a lyrical garland tossed toward Saul's adherents in an effort to win them (although we do not suppose for a moment that David was unaware of the positive political implications of his public and phenomenally articulate grief).

David's sincere (but again, astute) lament over Abner, reflecting not only David's continuing loyalty to the house of Saul, but his concern to unite the kingdom by winning over the adherents of Saul (3:31 - 39)

In other areas, especially France and Italy, an alternative syndicalist ideology won many adherents in the union movement; syndicalists urged that...

Just over a year ago, Secretary of State Clinton launched an international initiative to promote this approach and it has won an increasing number of adherents, helping to build international attention and action.

The first of an expected three films based on the phenomenal trilogy by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is a near perfect adaptation that should satisfy fans of the books and, perhaps, win them new adherents.

Höhn's idea that environmentalists have to «convert relinquishment into fun» in order to win more adherents was a theme that kept popping up at «The Great Transformation: Greening the Economy» conference organized by the German environmental foundation Heinrich Böll Stifung.