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143 examples of Altar in a sentence

Thus, Kim Jong-un, who is purportedly 28 years old, got to the altar right on time.
But their visit to Russia’s largest church was not in vain – footage of five women, dressed in glowing dresses and balaclavas while jumping in front of the altar, circulated widely on the Internet.
They worship at the same altar, apostles of the same murderous god, whoever he is.
But we must refuse to bow before the altar of tolerance when it comes to what is truly unacceptable, wherever it occurs, and this is what the world is witnessing passively in Afghanistan.
As US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson (who was also the chief US prosecutor at Nuremburg) put it, the constitution is not “a suicide pact” – a sentiment echoed by the Israeli jurist Aharon Barak, who emphasized that “civil rights are not an altar for national destruction.”
Should we imprison mothers because they are willingly sacrifice their daughters' physical integrity on the altar of tradition?
Although the religious cannot always pray at the same altar, the world’s religions can and should act in unison to promote human dignity, defend universal freedoms, and aid those in need.
Displaced children are more likely to become the youngest laborers in the factory, the youngest brides at the altar, and the youngest soldiers in the trench.
If Ryan is truly the grown-up Catholic altar boy that he likes to portray himself as being, he should denounce Trump’s xenophobic statements, deepening flirtation with the racist “alt-right,” dishonest business practices, and erratic foreign policy position.
These partners should not allow the European project to be sacrificed on the altar of German public opinion or German leaders’ insistence on “rules.”
Perhaps on the level of public relations, the Palestinian leadership - sacrificing their own people on the altar of propaganda - can bask in their achievement: yet it is their own people who suffer.
In his bestselling book Homo Deus, the historian Yuval Noah Harari anticipates the advent of “dataism,” whereby personal free will is sacrificed at the altar of the algorithm.
Eager to satisfy pushy parents, young people sacrifice their own interests at the altar of a false god.
In Latin America, intellectuals routinely depict middle-class voters who lean right as consumerist social climbers who have sacrificed class solidarity on the altar of money-grubbing individualism.
One of the most powerful drivers of support for deglobalization is the vulnerability of production models that rely on long and complex global supply chains, which have sacrificed robustness and resilience at the altar of short-term efficiency and cost reduction.
Protecting humanity from both environmental and financial ruin requires an entirely new approach to growth – one that does not sacrifice tomorrow at the altar of today.
But even they could not foresee that America would end up with a president willing to sacrifice so many lives on the altar of his ego.
There's also the story of how the Bishop of Trondheim set up an altar one day on an immense rock.
Living thus, without every leaving the warm atmosphere of the classrooms, and amid these pale-faced women wearing rosaries with brass crosses, she was softly lulled by the mystic languor exhaled in the perfumes of the altar, the freshness of the holy water, and the lights of the tapers.
Farther on, at a spot where the building narrows, the confessional forms a pendant to a statuette of the Virgin, clothed in a satin robe, coifed with a tulle veil sprinkled with silver stars, and with red cheeks, like an idol of the Sandwich Islands; and, finally, a copy of the "Holy Family, presented by the Minister of the Interior," overlooking the high altar, between four candlesticks, closes in the perspective.
She remembered the great candlesticks that rose above the vases full of flowers on the altar, and the tabernacle with its small columns.
One day, when at the height of her illness, she had thought herself dying, and had asked for the communion; and, while they were making the preparations in her room for the sacrament, while they were turning the night table covered with syrups into an altar, and while Felicite was strewing dahlia flowers on the floor, Emma felt some power passing over her that freed her from her pains, from all perception, from all feeling.
The following morning, Julien replied with great coolness to the worthy Fouque, who looked upon the matter of their partnership as settled, that his vocation to the sacred ministry of the altar did not allow him to accept.
After the Bishop's address and the King's reply, His Majesty took his place beneath the dais; he then knelt down most devoutly upon a cushion close to the altar.
One saw upon the altar more than a thousand candles arranged in eight rows, separated from one another by clusters of flowers.
Julien noticed that there were on the altar candles more than fifteen feet long.
It was hidden beneath the altar, in the garb of a young Roman soldier.
When all the pillars were hung with damask, the next thing was to go and place five enormous bunches of plumes on top of the great baldachino, over the high altar.
When he came to himself a little, he noticed the whole congregation rushing from the church; the priest had left the altar.
In the distance there was a large triangle of candles flickering on the main altar, K. was not certain whether he had seen them earlier.
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