| If judged by membership density alone, one might conclude that most running trades workers found the brotherhoods ' message compelling. |
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| The trouble with all elect brotherhoods is that they tend to place themselves above the ruck of mankind. |
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| In a world of brotherhoods and sisterhoods there was always the existence of secret societies. |
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| Religious brotherhoods and sisterhoods play an important role in organizing these ceremonies and festivals. |
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| These ties include family, friends, ethnic groups, neighborhood associations, religious brotherhoods, and hometown networks. |
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| Similarly, the railroad brotherhoods ' temperance efforts resembled but did not duplicate bourgeois temperance movements. |
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| By the early twentieth century the brotherhoods had organized the majority of workers in the railroad running trades. |
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| The challenge for the railroad brotherhoods, of course, was to make good on their temperance promises. |
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| Viewed this way, the railroad brotherhoods ' language of temperance and respectable manhood was as much intended for public consumption as it was the uplift of railwaymen. |
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| I'm referring to the actual members of the local congregations, fellowships and brotherhoods that open their hearts and wallets regularly for their faith. |
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| Hundreds of brotherhoods associated with the Jesuits had to be dissolved. |
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| Under the umbrella of their different tariqas the brotherhoods developed formidable organizations bound by personal ties of allegiance to their leaders. |
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| Even assuming that the brotherhoods may have been successful among their own membership, the majority of railroaders continued to drink, some moderately and others to excess. |
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| Not all Brotherhoods employ such techniques, but some do in the smaller pueblos where the communities are more close-knit and it is more difficult to keep secrets. |
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| The Shakers and some Indian eunuch brotherhoods do not allow procreation, so that every member is a convert. |
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| Several religious brotherhoods which have sprung up in and around Milan at various times since the 14th century have been called Ambrosians. |
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| A large number of Sunni Muslims are members of Sufi brotherhoods. |
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| These brotherhoods, however, had usually been suppressed by the monarch. |
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| The members of these brotherhoods do not form into separate ecclesia. |
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