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31 examples of Acolytes in a sentence

The young acolytes are taken away from their families at the age of three and four, sequestered in a shadowy world of darkness in stone huts at the base of glaciers for 18 years: two nine-year periods deliberately chosen to mimic the nine months of gestation they spend in their natural mother's womb; now they are metaphorically in the womb of the great mother.
Ghost Story could have been much more effective in black and white and in eliminating some of the more lurid special effects, and to presenting a more cogent screenplay (we should not have to be wondering about why the two trailer-parkish acolytes are in the script) The biggest detriment of the film is Craig Wassan (definitely separated at birth from Bill Maher) who from perhaps editing or just bad acting, is totally ineffective.
In the West, Charles Darwin's theories suffered no less egregious distortions at the hands of supposed Darwinian acolytes.
Hard as it is to resist the seductive charm of a Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, allies should not be acolytes.
But its acolytes should reflect on the uniformly disastrous results of centralized credit provision in the past.
Its leaders and acolytes want to teach schoolchildren that evolutionary theory is just another hypothesis about the origin of life, equivalent to religious propositions.
The capital-markets union actually began as a slogan, coined by one of EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's acolytes.
Ramaphosa won the leadership contest by a slim margin, and his elected deputy, David Mabuza, and ANC secretary-general, Ace Magashule, are Zuma acolytes.
The problem is that production requires not just capital and labor, but also knowhow – a factor of production ignored by Marx and his acolytes.
Instead of giving interviews he cannot control, Berlusconi has often worked with favored acolytes, or simply talked directly to the camera.
People now hear only the reflexively anti-pesticide drumbeat of the environmental movement, the lamentable legacy of the benighted Rachel Carson and her acolytes.
Now, Premier Racan is cashing in on his procrastination over Tudjman acolytes, hoping that they will be as generous with him should they return to government.
Its acolytes deplore the grit and relativism of politics and issue futile appeals for moral revivals.
The problem is not just that the McCain campaign has surrounded her with veterans of the Bush-Cheney cabal (Karl Rove’s acolytes and operatives now write her speeches and manage her every move).
The success of their defiance shows the power of the idea that bewilders outgoing President Leonid Kuchma and his acolytes: that democracy means taking responsibility for one’s fate into one’s own hands.
Indeed, successful implementation of the treaty would help debunk the facile argument made by the Kremlin and its acolytes that the liberal order has become dysfunctional.
Thus, Fox News calls itself “fair and balanced,” and Karl Rove and his acolytes turn their opponents’ strongest traits into their Achilles’ heels, using insinuations and lies to portray the opponents’ achievements as phony.
Given the insistence of Trump and his acolytes that borders do matter, businesses will think twice as they construct global supply chains.
Since 2010, orderly public procurement has ceased, with Yanukovych simply doling out state contracts to friends and acolytes at twice the market price.
Almost everyone – except the likes of ExxonMobil, US Vice President Dick Cheney, and their paid servants and deluded acolytes – understands that when humans burn hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere, where it acts like a giant blanket, absorbing infrared radiation coming up from below and warming the earth.
A Fed dominated by Trump acolytes might prioritize economic growth over other objectives, such as maintaining financial stability and low inflation.
People have finally come to understand that anti-Americanism, born on the extreme right and fed, in Germany, for example, by the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and his acolytes, is a fixture of fascism.
There are still a few unreformed “Socialist” states left: North Korea and Cuba, for example, even a couple new acolytes: Venezuela and Bolivia.
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Al Qaeda has been marginalized, but not by Saudi Arabia, which nurtured the terrorists, or by the US, which waged wars against Bin Laden and his acolytes.
For those acolytes, freedom is a psychologically burdensome condition.
During Barack Obama’s presidency, senior officials were marginalized, and foreign policy was generally determined by an inexperienced president and his even less experienced young White House acolytes.
For the nineteenth-century liberals and their latter-day acolytes, because markets are competitive, individuals’ returns are related to their social contributions – their “marginal product,” in the language of economists.
Meanwhile, inevitably, Trump and his acolytes are claiming victory and accusing critics of being sympathetic to Iran and even partial to the vicious Suleimani.
Once in office, Obama hired Rubin’s acolytes to staff his economic team.
To be sure, Iran is bound to retaliate, if only to maintain the morale of its acolytes and proxies.