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Protestant in sentence

50 examples of Protestant in a sentence

We know this because today the work ethic is no longer a Protestant, Western phenomenon.
So we saw the Protestant Reformation.
There are several reasons for this low status of the elderly in the U.S. One is our Protestant work ethic which places high value on work, so older people who are no longer working aren't respected.
In this film, we see a Protestant minister and a Catholic priest BOTH act like fools and be profane at the same time.
At its core is a protestant Christian parable symbolizing the ideal of kindness but, far from being dogmatic, it also addresses the "good" in each and every of us, regardless of our religious beliefs or lack thereof.
What if the two girls had been protestant?
It concerns a protestant woman who wants to decide where her Catholic-fathered child is educated, which would seem like a reasonable enough wish, though not to the '50's County Wexford villagers she has to live with.
Both churches are at fault here, the Catholic church for forcing such a regulation on the family in the first place and not responding to the violence that came with it and the Protestant church for telling the mother that she should just obey her husband and his priest and not put up a fight.
As funny to think about as to experience, it might have been the main inspiration for Monty Python or Fawlty Towers in its use of attitudes and punctilios to score comedic points; and as a headlong assault on the Protestant work ethic, it is, like the aforementioned, priceless.
The well-meaning Protestant women running the town hall meeting are top-downers and begin by saying things like, "We must all find a common ground between us," and, "We must get to know one another so we can work more effectively together."
King of Spain, Phillip is Catholic, and Elizabeth is protestant.
Health, religion, sex and science got very entangled in isolated and protestant America, this movie deals with it honestly.
At its heart lay a simple proposition: the republicans, who called for and bombed for a United Ireland – hammering together the predominantly Protestant North and the overwhelmingly Catholic South – accepted that constitutional change could come only through the ballot box.
Moreover, the police and security forces were to be reorganized so that they were seen to represent the whole community, not primarily its Protestant majority.
In the early sixteenth century, the German princes attempted to settle the philosophical challenge presented by Protestant reformers by engaging Martin Luther to debate a prominent orthodox Catholic theologian, Johannes Eck.
The daughter of a Protestant pastor raised in East Germany during Communist rule, she is standing up for Christian Democratic values.
He described his first “house call” in the 1960s, when he and a senior colleague visited a jovial protestant minister who had no idea that he only had weeks to live, owing to aggressive colon cancer.
Germany will have a Protestant pastor as its head of state, in addition to being governed by a Protestant pastor’s daughter.
Both parties are successors to the Catholic German Center Party, which fought against Protestant predominance in Prussia and Bismarck’s Reich.
Loud grumbling over the protestant ascendancy can be expected within both parties.
Research by the economic historian Jared Rubin indicates that the mere presence of a printing press in a city before 1500 greatly increased the likelihood that the city would become Protestant by 1530.
During the 1547-1553 reign of Henry’s son, Edward VI, revolutionary momentum carried England definitively in a Protestant direction.
At the same time, Northern Ireland’s dwindling Protestant majority clung ever more fervently to the British connection.
Following three decades of violent conflict between the province’s Irish nationalist and Protestant groups, resulting in over 3,600 deaths, the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 established a Unionist-Nationalist power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland, along with a British-Irish Council as a nod to harmonious relations with the Irish Republic.
Mercenary soldiers, Protestant or Catholic, switched sides whenever it suited them, while the Vatican backed the Protestant German princes, Catholic France backed the Protestant Dutch Republic, and many other alliances were forged across sectarian lines.
By Teutonic, Bagehot seemed to mean the Protestant world: the United States, recovering from the Civil War, Germany, and Britain.
The modern tendency to regard economic differences in terms of religion was stimulated by Max Weber’s reflections on the Protestant work ethic.
The first offensive use of cosmopolitanism came as part of the Protestant rebellion against the Catholic Church.
But the Catholic Church is increasingly losing out to Protestant competition there and elsewhere.
His concerns with Protestant competition in Latin America were – and remain – understandable, particularly in Brazil, Chile, and Guatemala, which have seen sharp increases in Evangelical adherence.