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Sentence Examples The artist drew on religious imagery of martyred saints to depict new political martyrs. Norman Fowler, chairman of the Conservative Party, claimed that withdrawing the whip was a bad move because it made the rebels into martyrs. The talk was of victories and defeats, of holy war and martyrs, of betrayal and the punishments for traitors to the cause. The production of corpses becomes narrativised as a collection of images of patriots, martyrs or betrayers. Female saints were also represented as visionaries, martyrs, and reformers. The red flag became the symbol of the blood of working class martyrs in their battle for workers rights. The Pysch-war boys may say it would most likely reduce their morale but I didn't agree, we could just be making an entire regiment of martyrs. Sorry, would-be martyrs, we do not censor your favorite sites from comments, unless you're into mature mamas or something. So there should be plenty of room to build that addition you'll want to keep those crazy teenage martyrs out of your hair. Nevertheless the overdetermining nature of violence means each event is quickly narrativized into the logic of patriots, martyrs or betrayals. Rather, martyrdom only makes sense when one takes seriously the martyrs ' religiosity. There are plenty of false martyrs out there that are completely unworthy of our sympathy. With brazen effrontery, however, they painted themselves as martyrs for freedom. At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. These are joined by meditations on the Jesuit martyrs of El Salvador, the Eucharist, the prayer Anima Christi, and the stigmata. In 1985, after his cardinal petitioned the Vatican to beatify 117 Vietnamese martyrs, he was told he could never be released. The revolutionaries are the prophets and martyrs of social and political change. Well, martyrs always receive the highest honour especially if they lose their life defending their motherland. A few were martyrs, some were serial murderesses, and some were mentally unbalanced, while others were totally innocent. In this image, the bishop carries a monstrance under the shelter of a portable baldachin decorated with the images of various saints and martyrs. Show More Sentences Edward has the rather unenvied distinction of being the last of the religious martyrs in England to be burned at the stake. They are the words of the martyrs, martyrdom being the frequent fate of prophets. French and Dutch Protestants claimed new martyrs in the religious and civil wars convulsing their countries. In the book of Revelation, the martyrs are vindicated by the descent of the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down from heaven to earth. For that average believer did not doubt that God's grace had been spectacularly displayed in the courage of the martyrs. You need plastic explosives, detonators, volunteers and somewhere to groom your potential martyrs and build your bomb. The number of casualties due to the fragmentation bombs has reached 17 martyrs and 72 wounded persons. The poor chevalier de La Barre subsequently joined Calas in the ranks of the Enlightenment's martyrs. And the family of regal martyrs bring us into the 20th century, representing the picture of new martyrs of Russia. Many of these martyrs had opposed the patriarchate's policy of accommodation with the Soviet regime. Martin Luther King Jr. and Che Guevara had achieved the iconic status of martyrs by this date. But he will know that the Victorians had their own idols, especially among the heroes and martyrs of the Empire. On the buildings downtown are murals, several floors high, glorifying the martyrs of the revolution. The red is proper to those who are ruddied and reddened as the martyrs were through the shedding of their blood for God's love. They may be dead and that is sad, and I feel for their families, but they are not martyrs or war heroes. Anabaptists encouraged themselves mainly with hortatory texts and liturgical hymns extolling martyrs and martyrdom. Earlier, officers laid wreaths in honour of the martyrs and felicitated war widows. At the inauguration of the column, the bodies of the martyrs of the revolution were transferred to a crypt beneath the statue. Not only does French cuisine have its heroes and its great men, but its martyrs as well. The story is full both of the pain of such suffering and of pride in the martyrs for their faith. Show More Sentences We still live in an age of martyrs and heroic saints, of apostates and world-weary skeptics. Back then we were bound by a sense of self-selected minority identity, sociological martyrs united in spirit against the misguided mainstream. However, not only the martyrs but also the confessors bore their tribulations and infirmities with great patience, and have to this day. Nevertheless, this daft, complex and slightly forlorn figure is set to become one of rap's martyrs. The truthful and honest businessman will be in the company of the Prophets, the truthful people, and the martyrs on the Day of Judgement. Wigtown, once famous principally for its covenanting martyrs, is these days a book town. The cult of the saints began with the earliest martyrs, who had certainly proved their wholeheartedness. Religion is pictured as old-fashioned, atavistic and dogmatic, defending superstition by burning scientific martyrs at the stake. I believe similar blood flows in the veins of men and women such as flowed in the veins of the martyrs in days gone by. Extreme cases come from martyrs who choose death rather than violate principles which are sacred to them. Given the choice to recant, martyrs chose instead to face their murderers and stand in witness to their beliefs. Few today realize the intense devotion to Christ in the early church and in our sainted martyrs. In contrast to their male counterparts, female martyrs are not promised virgins, but reunification with earthly husbands. Design for a decoration of a semi-dome, with Christ in a mandorla of cherubim between Sts Peter and Paul, and two martyrs, with a kneeling pope below. This is a day of celebration and national unity in which Chileans enjoy traditional food and folklore-type music and honor the martyrs of independence. On the one hand, the dead men are apotheosized and made into martyrs for a great cause, as part of an ongoing effort to whip up enthusiasm for the war within the public. There is a mosaic in Ravenna portraying saints, martyrs, hierarchs, and faithful laity, each of them holding a crown that they will place at the feet of Christ. We can believe in the resurrection as a fact because eleven out of the twelve disciples died as martyrs testifying to the resurrection and deity of Christ. Emphasis on the sanctity of the human body can also be seen in the cult of the martyrs and saints, in which bodily remains are imbued with divine power. Across the globe over the past few decades, women proven themselves as effective martyrs for a cause. Show More Sentences Not long after that, during a barnstorming tour of the country, he suffers the fate of all martyrs. If the claims are indeed true this time, expect al Qaeda to laud its martyrs publicly. Joan of Arc, Roland and Vercingetorix, all hardly known in France before 1870, were rescued from the memory hole by a nation that needed martyrs after the Prussian victory. Our second and third generations ' respect for the patriotic martyrs was thus manifested in the warm affection shown for the crippled grandson of the martyr. This had been demonstrated before in the Marian persecution in the 1550s where many of the martyrs had occupations such as labourers, weavers, carpenters and fullers. Did they hold out for their heritage of Ls. Cs and Vs? Did they have their numeral martyrs as we have our metric martyrs? But in this contest of martyrs, it was Ignatius's passionate account of a monarchical episcopal ministry which set the pattern for the future. Their martyrdom stirred resentment of the French and inspiring additional martyrs for the Protestant cause. Even though we cast ourselves as martyrs, we might be crusaders. Situated around the town of St Andrews are cobblestone markings denoting where Protestant martyrs were burnt at the stake. Similar cases have been successfully brought against metric martyrs in Cornwall, London and Surrey. A Protestant martyr, his life and death are recorded in John Foxe's famous book of martyrs. In the lives of saints and martyrs, the druids are represented as magicians and diviners. A row of cottages, housing agricultural workers and a museum, and a row of seated statues commemorate the martyrs. As in the first centuries and also in the current one, the Church suffers from the application of this penalty to her new martyrs. This latest breakthrough brings the total tally of the martyrs reclaimed from the snowslide so far to seven. They tell of sacrifices by martyrs to freedom, especially the men who committed suicide. She is also commemorated in England on 30 August, along with martyrs Anne Line and Margaret Ward. Political ceremony will be held by the side of the tombs of martyrs at Sunn. In fact, many joined the church when they saw how committed these martyrs were to their religion. Show More Sentences Fateha was offered for woman pilot Mariam Mukhtar Shaheed and the martyrs who sacrificed their life is the war against terrorism. The courtroom where the martyrs were tried, which has been little altered in 200 years, in Dorchester's Shire Hall, is being preserved as part of a heritage scheme. A monument was erected in their honour in Tolpuddle in 1934, and a sculpture of the martyrs, made in 2001, stands in the village in front of the Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum. Among the martyrs two were brothers, Sawabdar and Majnoon, sons of Khamiso while Majeed son of Sonaharo, Karro, son of Luqman and Metho, was son of Pyaro. The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum in Tolpuddle, Dorset, features displays and interactive exhibits about the martyrs and their effect on trade unionism. She was one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs. In the Decree of Beatification issued on 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII, when 54 English martyrs were beatified, the greatest place was given to Fisher. President-elect Bashir said the stand and commitment to allegiance with the martyrs was still valid and that the banner they died protecting would remain hoisted high. Vaisakhi is one of the most important festivals of Sikhs, while other significant festivals commemorate the birth, lives of the Gurus and Sikh martyrs. One of the earliest Old English texts in prose is the Martyrology, information about saints and martyrs according to their anniversaries and feasts in the church calendar. Talking to reporter, CDA's Member Environment Mustafain Kazmi said the spring tree planation drive would be named after the martyrs of Army Public School Peshawar. The orphreys were woven in a diaper of red and gold silk, and were starred with medallions of many saints and martyrs, among whom was St. Sebastian. The survivors, including chaplain John Knox, were condemned to be galley slaves, helping to create resentment of the French and martyrs for the Protestant cause. Haig saw himself as God's servant and was keen to have clergymen sent out whose sermons would remind the men that the war dead were martyrs in a just cause. Pope John Paul II will beatify thirty martyrs during his trip in June. Even so, the heroism of some of the martyrs was an example to those who witnessed them, so that in some places it was the burnings that set people against the regime. Examples from Classical Literature Surely it is the smoke of the pyre on which the martyrs have but now perished! Yet Languedoc furnished the most heroic martyrs for the ascetic manichaean creed. They were hanged, and now her body rests in Waldheim Cemetery, near the grave of those martyrs. A grandson of Menas, the brother of two martyrs for our glorious faith, married to a Melchite! Legate and Wightman were, in fact, the last martyrs burnt at the stake in England for their religious opinions. Borgognone again is said to have designed the saints and martyrs worked in tarsia for the choir-stalls. Faith in themselves has enabled the martyrs to obtain solace even on the brasiers of their tormentors. Their wives then become martyrs, especially in cases of alcoholism and paranoia. We have seen pictures of martyrs enough, and saints enough, to regenerate the world. Houghton and his fellows were as truly martyrs as frith had been. I could make out a startling list of the martyrs of orchidology. It was here that the martyrs Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley were burned. It had armed her for all combats, as heretofore it had armed the martyrs. The first light in the Lyons chevet celebrates the local martyrs. It does more, it enables women to become heroes and martyrs! The Silvio Pellicos of Pentonville are yet unwritten martyrs. The Prime Minister sombrely paid tribute to Lebanon's army and military martyrs and hostages. The death of the martyrs was at that time an amplification of rhetoric. But humble as we are, and unpretending, in the matter of art, our researches among the painted monks and martyrs have not been wholly in vain. Dear Mrs. Potiphar, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Show More Sentences On the roll of martyrs to orchidology, Mr. Pearce stands high. Sir Charles had asked an eminent tragedian of his acquaintance to place the work on the stage and to enact one of the patriot martyrs. Flagellants joined martyrs, hermits, and mystics as religious figures who attempted to understand Christ through renunciation. Pope Boniface IV designated November 1 All Saints' Day, a time to honour saints and martyrs. As for their materials, they are dedicated to the fanes of the martyrs. These sublime martyrs to figures have been known to return to an army commissary, after a delay of two years, some account in which there was an error of two farthings. There will be, in all times and in all countries, particularly if religious divisions exist in those countries, fanatics who ask nothing better than to become martyrs. In its cerebration, could Egypt construct a Pharhaonic memorial to hallow the martyrs whomsoever they are, in whatever circumstances they fell in this ghastly Gahanna? Otherwise she must have believed them the most hopeless assortment of reprobates and ne'er-do-wells in the world, with veritable slaves and martyrs for wives. Others, in whose veins the blood of martyrs did not flow, substituted rags for leads and pretended that they made a more natural and less woolly curl. Find more words! 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