(a.) Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(2) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(3) She could not leave the house.” Caroline Abrahams, charity director for Age UK said about the significance of the benefit: “Attendance allowance is a hugely important benefit which helps older people to meet the extra costs associated with living with disability.
(4) Abraham responded by saying that Channel 4 regretted the incident and would learn from the experience.
(5) A lthough Steven Spielberg's new movie Lincoln barely shows the event, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by an actor – in a theatre, no less – so it seems especially appropriate that, a century and a half later, his resurrection should be conducted by a member of the same profession.
(6) McArdle – who plays Abrahams, the Jewish runner who sees proving himself on the track as a way of combatting antisemitism – is glistening with sweat.
(7) A program in maxillofacial prosthetics for medical artists was initiated at the University of Illinois Medical Center in 1966 as a joint enterprise of the Center for Craniofacial Anomalies of the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine and the Department of Medical Art of the School of Associated Medical Sciences.
(8) Abraham Gonzalez 31: Tina Modotti and Frances Toor: Aesthetics Of Revolution?
(9) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(10) Abraham added that the broadcaster is "analysing what is going on".
(11) The more preventive services like meals on wheels and daycare are being especially hard hit, leaving the system increasingly the preserve of older people in the most acute need, storing up big problems for the future.” Hundreds of thousands of older people are “being left high and dry” as a result of Whitehall cuts to town hall budgets across England, Abrahams added.
(12) "Whites don't own Abraham Lincoln, blacks don't own Martin Luther King," he has said.
(13) It was clear from the proceedings that we and Ms Gabriel-Abraham felt equally strongly about our respective positions and that each had different perceptions of the events that took place.
(14) Abraham’s uncle, who is already looking after three sets of orphaned relatives, said he would care for his nephew despite struggling to feed his enlarged family.
(15) The Heights Of Abraham caverns, cable car and more near Matlock Bath.
(16) Names like Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan are examples of politicians who marked the beginning of new political eras.
(17) While these machinations have been taking place behind the scenes, chief executive David Abraham has masterminded a rolling rebrand that has seen the company's 10 channels gradually drop the UKTV prefix on-screen in favour of attention-seeking one-word names.
(18) Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “As ever with this government though, the devil is in the detail.
(19) However, David Abraham, the UKTV chief executive who is moving to the same job at Channel 4 later this year, may become instrumental in getting the talks going again.
(20) Gabriel-Abraham is far more of a hero than the footballers whose replica shirts she sold.
Heathen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Heathen
(n.) An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
(n.) An irreligious person.
(a.) Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
(a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
(a.) Irreligious; scoffing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(2) Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies.
(3) Ye satanic windmills are verily heathen science bequeathed by snollygosters that fail to honour the old ways and displeaseth the coal gods,” it said.
(4) No way should bishops or imams or rabbis have the power in parliament, unelected, to influence the way we heathens (or humanists) should live our lives.
(5) Study the expressions on the faces of Barack Obama or Ben Bernanke talking about "growth" as if it were a heathen god to be appeased by tipping another cauldron's worth of fictional money into the mouth of a volcano.
(6) I also don't say this as a heathen: good quality tea is essential to making the perfect cup.
(7) In 2011 he released the album Toy, which dated back to 2001 and comprised tracks from Heathen and their B sides plus versions of older material.
(8) There have been suggestions that both the looting and the government's failure to tackle it results from the rise of Islamists who are culturally opposed to Egypt's heathen heritage.
(9) a) Herbert Grönemeyer b) Peter Maffay c) Udo Jürgens (the "joke" is that it spells out a sentence "If Lattek wears Klinsi's shorts, Jürgen wears Udo's" (it's Udo Lattek and Jürgen Klinsmann) d) Patrick Lindner 300 Flower of the year in 2012 is a) Katholikenuschi (Catholic Uschi) b) Baddhistenbaerbel (Buddhist Baerbel) c) Protestantenwaltraud (Protestant Waltraud) d) Heidenelke (Heathen Elke) 500 If the idiot (Depp… so means Johnny Depp in this context) doesn't have his debit card on him, how does he pay?
(10) Sadly, he hasn't gone for Transformers Plasters, the heathen.
(11) A fortnight ago McConnell told his congregation at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle: "Islam is heathen.
(12) Heathen swingers destroying the notion of Britishness.
(13) Based on data of two Canadian Protestant missions in China before 1937, this study reveals that medical missionaries were generally ignorant of Chinese medicine, and they regarded Chinese medicine as part of an inferior, heathen culture.
(14) It reminds me a little of Everyone Says "Hi" from 2002's Heathen.
(15) The following year, he was artistic director of the Meltdown festival on the South Bank in London, opening the event by performing the first concert of his own Heathen tour, in support of his album of the same name.
(16) The unusual event has been celebrated for centuries and is thought to have its roots in a heathen festival to celebrate the return of spring.
(17) Improvements on the MBMs (No 479 in a series of 389,457): "Unthinkable as it may seem, I think I've found a better way to follow the tournament than with the MBMs," writes heathen Philip Hucknall.
(18) The arrival of his daughter, Alexandria, in 2000 opened a joyous new dimension, though he kept working, delivering 2002’s Heathen , a dreamy confection of old and new material, and 2003’s Reality , a crafted call to “face the music and dance”.
(19) We were called pagans and heathens and spawn of the devil," she says.
(20) Terrible omens preceded the raid, the chroniclers wrote, “whirlwinds, lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky”, and then “the ravaging of wretched heathen people destroyed God’s church at Lindisfarne”.