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105 examples of Reverence in a sentence

Now, in center-left American communities like Berkeley, California, where I live and work, Piketty’s book has been received with praise bordering on reverence.
Her Alan Greenspan-like belief in the self-correcting features of financial markets, and her reverence for the integrity of the price mechanism, do not look as well-founded today as they did in the 1980’s.
Given this reverence for oaths, it is reasonable to assume that taking a truthfulness oath before initiating a campaign for public office would have some impact on candidates’ approach.
We learned not just thousands of facts that I have since forgotten, but an attitude of skepticism coupled with reverence for the truth.
Instead, his behavior is reminiscent of a feudal district official whose main priority is to ensure that his superiors are treated with due reverence.
A conservative is someone who, in the tradition of the eighteenth-century English parliamentarian Edmund Burke, believes that the established order deserves respect, even reverence.
Its demand reflected a reverence for its past.
Since then, the Orthodox Church (in Russian, Pravoslavie, literally the “right worship”) has been considered the only correct form of Christianity in Russia, with other denominations dismissed for their support of individualism and insufficient reverence of the human soul.
The poor and the military hold the Palace in genuine reverence.
Likewise, when Americans speak of the IITs, India’s technology institutes, with the same reverence they accord to MIT, and the “Indianness” of engineers and software developers is taken as synonymous with mathematical and scientific excellence, India gains in respect.
Those climbers who believe that continuing would “honor” the lost Sherpas should consider alternative ways to express their reverence.
The Value of a Pale Blue DotMelbourne – The eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote: “Two things fill the heart with ever renewed and increasing awe and reverence, the more often and more steadily we meditate upon them: the starry firmament above and the moral law within.”
This year, the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first use of a telescope, has been declared the International Year of Astronomy, so this seems a good time to ponder Kant’s first source of “awe and reverence.”
By expanding our grasp of the vastness of the universe, science has, if anything, increased the awe and reverence we feel when we look up on a starry night (assuming, that is, that we have got far enough away from air pollution and excessive street lighting to see the stars properly).
This brings us back to Kant’s other object of reverence and awe, the moral law within.
The Abuse of History and the Iranian BombTEL AVIV – Saturated with their often tragic history, Jews tend to pay great reverence to the past.
There is something deeply ironic about Abbott’s reverence for the American model in defending many of his government’s proposed “reforms.”
Whatever their significance, they were evidently objects of reverence, not disdain.
Nor should they be asked to devote some of their taxes to helping other countries out of love and reverence for European flags or anthems.
Such incidents have heightened the sense of vulnerability felt by many who do not necessarily share the vigilantes’ reverence for cows.
With their reverence for – and understanding of – nature, such groups serve as the world’s environmental sentinels, safeguarding 80% of global diversity and playing a critical role in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Whereas Hinduism teaches reverence for other faiths, those who claim to be its doughty warriors admit no such ecumenism.
In our more secular times, the reverence for spiritual idols has been replaced by adoration of rock stars or sports heroes.
Reverence of this kind does not demand that a leader be morally irreproachable.
Our reverence for GNP, without attention to how growth is distributed, has driven inequality to its highest levels in 50 years.
Central bankers were held in high esteem, and their utterances, though often elliptical or even incomprehensible, were treated with deep reverence.
His final reverence ended with the words:'I shall send my son up to the chateau.'
'His Reverence has failed to overcome his resistance; for His Reverence considers that he ought not to refuse a decent girl, just because she has been a lady's maid.
Julien had no reverence for nobility of blood, she understood.
"Yes," interrupted the spinster hastily, and with an air of reverence that was instantly succeeded by an expression that denoted more of worldly care; "but then I have left my wages for three years past in the hands of Harvey, and how am I to get them?
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