adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cultural/religious tradition
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cultural traditions that date back many generations
a financial/legal/religious etc matter
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This is a legal matter and should be discussed with a solicitor.
a religious ceremony
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Did you have a religious ceremony when you got married?
a religious community (= people with a particular religion, who often keep themselves separate from society )
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The buildings belong to a strict religious community.
a religious experience (= one that makes someone believe strongly in God )
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As a young man he had a profound religious experience.
a religious objection
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Roman Catholics have religious objections to the use of contraceptives.
a religious war
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How many people have died in religious wars?
a religious/military/biological etc metaphor
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He uses a military metaphor to describe these women as ‘storming’ the castle of male power.
a religious/Muslim/Catholic etc upbringing
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Because of her Catholic upbringing she would not divorce her husband.
a religious/spiritual leader
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The Pope is the Roman Catholics’ spiritual leader.
ethnic/religious/civil etc strife
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a time of political strife
have a good/religious/tough etc upbringing
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He had a rather unsettled upbringing, moving with his father from town to town.
political/emotional/economic/religious etc turmoil
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the prospect of another week of political turmoil
political/religious controversy
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The agreement attracted a lot of political controversy.
political/religious freedom (= freedom to have any political/religious beliefs )
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The people were given political freedom for the first time in the country's history.
political/religious orientation
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The meeting is open to everyone, whatever their political or religious orientation.
political/religious overtones (= having a connection to politics or religion that is not directly expressed )
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The decision may have political overtones.
political/religious persuasion
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We need people with talent, whatever their political persuasions.
racial/religious intolerance
religious affairs
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She wanted to be more involved in the church and religious affairs.
religious commitment
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Many people have ceased to have any active religious commitment.
religious creed
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a religious creed
religious discrimination
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There must be an end to religious discrimination.
religious diversity (= including people of many different religions )
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The Ivory Coast is a country of great religious diversity.
religious fanatic
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a religious fanatic
religious fanaticism
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The bombing symbolizes the worst of religious fanaticism .
religious freak
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a religious freak
religious liberty
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The American Constitution protects religious liberty.
religious right
religious/football/disco etc mania
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Keep-fit mania has hit some of the girls in the office.
religious/political principles
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Doesn’t working on Sunday conflict with your religious principles?
religious/political/ideological etc dogma
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the rejection of political dogma
religious/revolutionary/missionary etc zeal
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He approached the job with missionary zeal.
religious/sectarian hatred (= hatred between people who belong to different religious groups )
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The law makes it an offence to stir up religious hatred.
sb's religious outlook
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The Puritans' religious outlook affected every aspect of their lives.
sb’s (political/religious etc) affiliation
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the newspaper’s political affiliations
the religious/clerical establishment
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His teachings were unacceptable to the religious establishment of the time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
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In Gulu, a deeply religious town still torn between fear and hope, a handshake has become a sin.
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Clarke was a deeply religious man who enjoyed mathematics, music, and domestic life.
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One of 11 children, he was born on a Mississippi farm where his deeply religious father disapproved of the blues.
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Both were deeply religious , highly intelligent, moralistic southerners who went to the White House as amateurs and outsiders.
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He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious , and a staunch advocate of temperance.
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In making this comment, one is merely pointing out particular ideological characteristics in hard-working, deeply religious , and committed people.
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Both Digby's parents were deeply religious and almost violently anti-Catholic.
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Sorley was deeply religious in the philosophical sense but always remained out of tune with conventional belief.
■ NOUN
affiliation
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Like the Robinson-Pattisson connection they could also easily cross lines of religious affiliation .
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Maury Maverick managed to pry out of the Pentagon the religious affiliations of the 220 who died that day in Beirut.
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The course is open to people of all nationalities and religious affiliations , and the minimum age is 15 years.
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Does he have religious affiliation and whatnot?
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But hypersensitivity about colour or religious affiliation can be counterproductive.
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In controversy abolitionists found arguments in common whatever their religious affiliations .
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She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations .
authority
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It was the latest instance of an attempt to lend religious authority to political violence.
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Many were religious authorities forced to take part in the movement by military men and were inhibited by the barracks-room jingoism.
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The religious authorities are not impressed.
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The priest, Gleb Yakunin, long has been a vocal critic and irritant to secular as well as religious authorities .
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The Roman see emerged as the sole religious authority and centre of a barbarian West.
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Witches are simply women who control symbolic power that neither men nor established religious authorities can wrench from them.
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A fundamental issue was whether religious authority was ultimately vested in an ecclesiastical succession or in the Bible alone.
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Their religious authorities were poetic performers, not bureaucrats.
belief
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Her book asked Christians to take a deeper look at some of their religious beliefs .
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Fewer than one in 200 cited religious beliefs as their reason for not practicing family planning.
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At that stage we ignored other possible religious beliefs .
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Christine tells me how there is no distinction on the island between religious belief and social structure.
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They were separated from their northern neighbours only by religious beliefs .
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For example, must teachers and students salute the flag or follow the curriculum if doing so violates their religious beliefs ?
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The strength and nature of a person's religious beliefs are often made clear by a will.
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Six months after their surgery, patients with no religious beliefs had a death rate three times higher than those who did.
ceremony
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For a supposedly religious ceremony there is a very secular feel about the whole affair.
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And we were not pleased about the interference in our religious ceremonies .
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More often, religious ceremonies required special clothes.
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Ruby Wax found some real wackos in West Virginia-loons who use poisonous snakes in religious ceremonies .
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Then the entire party walked to the parish church for the religious ceremony .
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The next day saw the religious ceremony at Notre Dame - which again led to family difficulties.
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I thought a religious ceremony must now follow, but I was mistaken.
community
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The Sikhs have a very strong identity as a religious community and an ethnic group.
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Was it really Guru Nanak's intention to found a new religion, or even a new religious community ?
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It is interesting to note that the meals of other religious communities of the times suffered from similar strains.
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Confirmations and ordinations did not take place - most of the bishops and many of the religious communities were in exile.
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It is shaped and nurtured in a religious community , and its expression grows and develops through history.
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As a retreat conductor, preacher and speaker for religious communities in the Assembly and the Synod he had few rivals.
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The religious community that subsequently formed here was at its apogee in the twelfth century, when the present church was begun.
conservative
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To religious conservatives , however, even these tentative and moderate reforms were undesirable and alarming.
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After a ferocious election campaign, religious conservatives lost their majority on the board in November.
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Lena is a staunch religious conservative who slaps her atheistic daughter across the face.
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Some religious conservatives have opposed the act, saying it unfairly penalizes people to overprotect lesser forms of life.
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These days, the evolution issue is symbolic of the legislative influence of religious conservatives .
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But the candidate himself continues to court religious conservatives with fiery attacks on abortion and on Sen.
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By some estimates, as many as 2 of every 5 Iowa Republican voters are religious conservatives .
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Still, Buchanan appeals to abortion opponents, gun rights advocates and religious conservatives .
conviction
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They all wear headscarves-whether out of fear or religious conviction I do not know-whereas I don't.
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Furthermore, preparation of students to work as church musicians without regard to their religious convictions can lead to confusion or insincerity.
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Davis' religious conviction actually gives him a better understanding of Hall, Hall says.
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That shows an inner strength which must be the result of his deep religious conviction .
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The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction , use such modern conveniences, but city bureaucrats were implacable.
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Its aim would be to produce people with versatile musicianship and proven teaching ability, based upon religious conviction .
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Friends and associates describe Starr, the son of a Baptist minister, as a man of deep religious convictions .
discrimination
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It had previously been notorious in some areas for the manipulation of electoral boundaries and for the practice of religious discrimination .
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Students do not need to be victims of racism, sexism, religious discrimination , or homophobia to feel like outsiders.
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To begin with, Catholics objected to religious discrimination reflected in the unfair allocation of jobs, housing and industrial investment.
education
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But religious education has been known to be fundamentalist and in some cases anti-catholic, depending on the teacher.
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After his religious education advisors had reviewed the program, he banned it from archdiocesan schools.
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Puskat started life in 1969 producing audio visuals for religious education .
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Beside her stood Anna Thompson, the director of religious education .
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I suspect this, like compulsory religious education , gave me a lifelong scepticism about obligatory elements in any curriculum.
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We can apply these to the purpose of religious education in this way: to help pupils 1.
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History, geography, technology, music, religious education , art and physical education were not dealt with in separate departments.
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Catholic teachers are urged to consider the benefits of such a process of formation for all in religious education .
experience
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One of the lessons we have already begun to learn is the almost uncanny universality of the religious experience .
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Such a thought finds a corroboration in religious experience and thought.
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He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.
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Larson cites a medical journal article of 22 years ago that compares a religious experience to a psychotic episode.
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The disciplined study of religion reaches out more broadly to cover all the forms of religious experience .
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A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience .
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People who do not understand his religious experience are fools!
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The learning is an intense cultural and religious experience .
faith
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None in religious education. 9 - strong religious faith ?
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If that happens, religious faith is born.
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Walker was baptised a Presbyterian but throughout her life her religious faith grew ever broader in its outlook.
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Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
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To contemplate death may be scary, but for those with a strong religious faith it can be almost exciting.
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Such calculations did little to shake the religious faith of the masses.
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Some would see his agnosticism, his awareness of the limits to thought, as the only true basis for religious faith .
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The effort to inculcate ethical behavior without religious faith seems one of the great fiascoes of the modern age.
fanatic
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Pathans are very very orthodox and sometimes religious fanatics .
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Born dirt-poor in a southern town to religious fanatics , he was raised on the Bible and the taunts of others.
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In December 1980, there was a serious outbreak of rioting by religious fanatics in the northern city of Kano.
freedom
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They would know the real meaning of religious freedom , something which has never really existed throughout religious history.
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This pioneering plea for religious freedom called diversity not a curse but a glory.
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The Humane Slaughter Association is right to point out the arguments in favour of religious freedom .
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When the United States assured religious freedom around 1776, the founders paid little notice to this seeker.
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The police were called and required the protesters to go home, in the name of religious freedom .
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There have been instances of religious freedom being outweighed by a powerful public interest, however.
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You've also got various religious freedom fighters.
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The principle of religious freedom was established as fundamental from the beginning of this nation.
group
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This is particularly true of certain ethnic and religious groups .
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Are student religious groups entitled to recognition?
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The ostensible reason was Mr Moussa's supposedly unauthorised dialogue with representatives of the main radical religious group , the Jamaat Islamiya.
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A religious group called the Legion of Mary went from door to door to collect these portions.
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I am a friend of the religious groups , but only of the revolutionary religious groups!
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Can student religious groups use school facilities?
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Elsewhere, when governments had failed to provide schools, religious groups often moved into the vacuum.
house
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At one time a fifth of the town was occupied by religious houses or mission centres.
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These were used as retreats in times of attack and for clandestine communication between the religious houses .
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All his surviving work was done for religious houses in the south-west.
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The comparison is a literal one as far as the abbeys and other religious houses in the list of libraries here are concerned.
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The hospitality of the religious houses had become the responsibility of the gentry.
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The relationship between the popes and the religious houses could be used to papal advantage.
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The religious houses fitted neatly into the papal hierarchical structure.
institution
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In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament.
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Bishop Drausin founded several religious institutions , including a chapel for nuns who had taken ill and a monastery at Rethondes.
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But spontaneous vigour of citizens and of political and religious institutions was not, happily, any longer felt to be sufficient.
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It comes as President Bush advances a plan to increase the involvement of religious institutions in solving social problems.
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The final obstacle was a disagreement between Shas and Mafdal over the distribution of funds to their client religious institutions .
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It is also true that he accorded certain privileges to the Roman Church, as well as to other religious institutions .
instruction
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In return, local authorities were empowered to appoint the teachers in such schools for all subjects other than religious instruction .
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She started giving children religious instruction and grew to love teaching.
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Gradualism had failed to secure the collaboration of masters or their agents in educating or providing religious instruction for the slaves.
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More prayers, more training, sometimes with live firing, followed by more religious instruction .
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Before the 1988 Act, the governing bodies had control only over religious instruction .
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Can students receive religious instruction during school hours?
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It laid down guidelines for religious instruction .
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There the religious instruction started by his father, who for all the lean years had been his schoolteacher, continued.
leader
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It is a system that works well for the police and for the city's religious leaders .
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A son of the great religious leader I think it was-he discovered that place where the cannery was.
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Enquiries emanated from government departments, newspapers, independent scholars, medical practitioners, religious leaders and philanthropic bodies.
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It was the inspired creation of a company of gifted architects, canny financiers, and cosmopolitan religious leaders .
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The army stamps with efficiency on any uppity religious leaders .
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A: Yes, what is unique this time is that we are convening some civil rights and religious leaders .
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His sense of foreboding is shared by almost every politician, diplomat, religious leader and journalist returning from the region.
liberty
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Needless to say, this system by no means produced the religious liberty for which people had originally fought.
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Its purpose is to secure religious liberty in the individual by prohibiting any invasions thereof by civil authority.
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To withhold religious liberty was out of the question.
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This case is not about religious liberty .
life
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My dream of the religious life is shattered.
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They grafted themselves, in fact, on to a much older, more primitive and powerful religious life .
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Secondly, he cared about the intellectual question in religious life .
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Their religious life is tolerant, pluralist, divided into different sects or denominations.
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These embrace the Benedictine, Augustinian, Franciscan and other main traditions of the religious life .
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Under the circumstances, it was only natural that religious life be focused on their gods of war.
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We have done little to consider how new members entering the religious life nowadays can internalize the attitudes they attempted to represent.
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It was the single greatest revelation of his religious life .
man
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He had always been a very religious man , which had helped him a lot in the Corporation.
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He is a Sikh, a religious man , very calm, kind.
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Hadn't she just described the truly religious man , some one in the world but not of it?
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My father was not a religious man in his youth and middle years.
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Clarke was a deeply religious man who enjoyed mathematics, music, and domestic life.
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Starbuck is the religious man and he sees in the doubloon a symbol of the Trinity.
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Lord Halifax was a cold fish, a man of steely rectitude, a religious man.
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It did not change me in the sense that I am a religious man now.
matter
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For him it's a religious matter .
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Sophia was not intolerant in religious matters .
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If this legislation was repealed, the Pope promised, the church would confine itself to religious matters .
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There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters .
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Learning, singing, and praying are rolled up into one: catechesis, as opposed to dialogue or concerned interest for religious matters .
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During the long sea voyage, Thomas Burns was seen as a leader in more than religious matters .
objection
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Sometimes there are often religious objections .
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For example, mandatory polio immunization of all school children has been upheld, despite the religious objections of some parents.
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Suitable for couples with religious objections to other methods.
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What if the family has religious objections ?
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Can a teacher refuse to follow the curriculum if the refusal is based on religious objections ?
observance
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Figures of religious observance are harder to come by.
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This information also served as the basis for fixing with exactness the dates of major religious observances such as Easter.
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A punctilious attention to prayers and strict religious observance would win their indulgence.
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Now that religious observance was officially discouraged only a few hundred worshippers were present.
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But the universal character of Amnesty should surely bar the incorporation of any religious observance into its official procedures.
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As an adult, John did not follow any religious observances .
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She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance .
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The seventeen volumes of his survey provide a remarkable survey not only of poverty but of employment and religious observance in London.
party
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As these opportunities appeared, so at the same time the lines of religious party and sect hardened.
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This process of clarification may not have pleased the ruling classes or the officials of the religious parties .
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Having a religious party on board could make all the difference.
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Negotiations with Moda'i Initially, Peres directed his efforts towards winning the support of small orthodox religious parties .
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The debate was interspersed with angry exchanges as the small religious parties demanded increased state funding for their seminaries and social institutions.
people
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To say this is not to belittle the sincere concern shown by many religious people in the debate over embryo research.
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They were very religious people that come over here from the old country.
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If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites.
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It is opposed by religious people who believe that one can and should pray at home or in a place of worship.
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He wanted to know what are the experiences and emotions of religious people .
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Many religious people are as worried as non-religious people about the abuse of religion.
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For in the real world there is a nasty side to religion, and religious people can become ogres.
purpose
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The divine art of poetry was dedicated once to a religious purpose .
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Miracles, however, have a religious purpose , not a scientific one.
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Robert Hibbert had died in 1849 leaving money for religious purposes , which was at first applied to theological education.
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Firstly, the hill is not suitable for defense or agriculture and therefore must have served a religious purpose .
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Now, it was invoked for a religious purpose .
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Babylonian science was predicated on a tradition of astronomical record-keeping for strictly religious purposes .
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Typical of the late Middle Ages were secular funds created for religious purposes .
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What Paul refers to is a real meal, but one with a religious purpose .
right
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The religious right can not side wholeheartedly with Dole now.
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The religious right has made the strongest claim.
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He straddles the ground between party moderates and the religious right .
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Within months, the religious right had begun to compare her plight with that of civil rights activists in the I 950s.
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But for the religious right , McCain would certainly have won.
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The vast majority of Viriginia voters, almost 90 %, were not part of the religious right .
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Most fundamentalist churches disapprove of homosexuals, and many leaders of the religious right have aggressively campaigned against gay rights.
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The Pentagon opposed the forced discharges, but Congress preferred to pander to the social and religious right .
school
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One legitimate fear is that more religious schools will deepen social divides.
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True, synagogue membership and religious school enrollment both hover around 50 percent.
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The government should be outspoken, and specific, about its fears for teaching in religious schools .
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They were joined by teenage boys who surged in waves from the neighboring Mir-i-Arab Madrasa, a religious school .
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The palace was also Charles's religious school .
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Can public schools provide sign language interpreters for deaf students attending religious schools?
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Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.
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Can the state regulate private religious schools ?
sect
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Paramat stood by the doorway with the attitude of a tourist at the shrine of an exotic religious sect .
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Behind the gate, however, is a religious sect that former members say indulges in polygamy and other questionable practices.
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He believes Dinah has either been murdered or is the prisoner of a religious sect .
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It must be stressed that the Zealots were not a religious sect or denomination.
teaching
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There are numerous examples of the manner in which distorted religious teaching has done harm.
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Examples are constitutions, revered leaders, widely respected media or books, and religious teachings .
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It is not surprising to find, therefore, that the womb has a key role in many religious teachings .
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In most religious teachings it is said that no lasting realization can be achieved without many years of practice.
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The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching .
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Opposition to contraception is often reinforced by religious teachings and the fear that contraceptives will encourage wives to be unfaithful.
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Inpart this reflected religious scruples since mechanical explanations for our behaviour were incompatible with religious teaching .
tradition
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Assertiveness training has rarely featured much in religious traditions .
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But the abuses of our religious traditions should not keep us from affirming their call to compassion.
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A conventional conflict thesis can also conceal vital distinctions between different religious traditions and between liberal and conservative representatives of those traditions.
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And modern life, in almost all its aspects, represents a break with religious tradition .
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Clearly none of the religious traditions we have examined asserts the latter.
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The proposed immigration policy would compromise the First Amendment, which forbids the identification of the United States with any religious tradition .
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It is, of course, impossible to do justice to the thought of a religious tradition with one or two quotations.
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Increased possibilities of travel together with the effects of immigration have also made possible a wider knowledge of the world's religious traditions .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
along religious/ethnic/party etc lines
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In Moldavia there was a marked division of voting along ethnic lines .
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In the specific conditions of post-colonial underdevelopment it is not unusual to find conflict within the bourgeoisie working along ethnic lines .
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It comes as no surprise that the caricatures are extended along ethnic lines .
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On Capitol Hill, reactions to Bush's proposals fell predictably along party lines .
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The committee voted 21-16, along party lines , to empower Burton.
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The Council, said the author, should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines .
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The vote was 35 to 24, almost strictly along party lines .
religious/sex maniac
the religious right
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Religious education is compulsory in all English schools.
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religious studies
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a religious festival
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All acts of religious worship were banned.
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At one time, I was very religious and a regular church-goer.
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He's always been a religious man, and I think that has helped him.
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Hooker was born on a Mississippi farm, to a deeply religious mother who disapproved of almost all music.
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Like many Victorians, Ruskin was deeply religious .
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My mother is so religious that she won't even watch TV on Sundays.
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Record companies feared the album might cause offence to people on religious grounds.
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The tutor discussed her own religious beliefs openly with the students.
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The walls were decorated with religious symbols.
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They didn't attend because of religious reasons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it refers to a religious reality that is so basic and so universal its equivalent has been found almost everywhere.
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It also took testimony Thursday from religious leaders.
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It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual.
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Since it was the Sabbath, he thought he ought to watch something religious .
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Some religious have moved into smaller communities whilst carrying the responsibility for caring for their own elderly and sick brothers and sisters.
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The variety of religious motivations was not always conducive to harmony among philanthropists.
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To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.