(n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The residents told AP that the militants claimed the mosque had become a place for apostasy, not prayer.
(2) Anonymous callers or others using names such as the Cyber Army of Allah have accused BBC Persian staff of being drug dealers, converting to Bahaism or Chrstianity – potentially a capital offence in Iran as it is considered to be apostasy – or taking bribes.
(3) Referring to the two hadith in which Muhammad reportedly condemns apostasy as a capital offence, Maher Hathout , author of In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in Islam writes: "both of them contradict the Qur'an and other instances in which the Prophet did not compel anyone to embrace Islam, nor punish them if they recanted."
(4) According to a placard tied to his corpse, Asaad was accused of apostasy.
(5) His parents were Methodists, a fact to which he attributed his lifelong political and intellectual apostasy.
(6) The video condemns the doctrine of the Trinity as a form of apostasy, and brands Christians as infidels.
(7) There is a lot of confusion in the air regarding the thorny issue of conversion and "apostasy" in the Muslim world.
(8) Instead of living stoically and ironically with her "contradictions", she broke ranks to explore the creative possibilities of disintegration: mental illness, political apostasy, the sex war, and the cold war between generations.
(9) Those who convert to other religions risk arrest or even execution for apostasy.
(10) You can spend your life believing women should be second-class citizens and homosexuality and apostasy are crimes that in an ideal Islamic state deserve the death sentence and never harm anyone apart from your wife and children.
(11) However, his bitter criticism of the conduct of the miners' strike of 1984-85 and the leadership of Arthur Scargill was regarded by many of his old comrades as an apostasy too far.
(12) Before the apocalypse arrives, it is pledged to destroying all 200 million Shia Muslims, whom it regards as heretics, all other Muslims who by accepting secular governance confirm their apostasy, and the “army of Rome” (the west).
(13) People should know I am not against anyone here, I am an artist and I am just looking for my freedom.” Fayadh, who co-curated a show at the 2013 Venice Biennale , was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes for apostasy by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
(14) They included people killed on the grounds of homosexuality, practising magic and apostasy.
(15) Under the Gulf nation’s strict version of sharia law, drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death.
(16) Although Mona won the case, El Sadaawi says that this, and another court case in 2002 – brought by a lawyer who sought to have El Sadaawi forcibly divorced on the basis of apostasy (abandonment of religion) – has left her bruised.
(17) Had he been a Christian or an atheist, he would have been killed for apostasy under Saudi law.
(18) Kasich’s apostasy would make him interesting if Republicans weren’t in Trump’s thrall.
(19) Its appalling reputation for human rights abuses has been reinforced by the cases of the free-thinking blogger, Raif Badawi , sentenced to be flogged, and the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh , who is facing death for the crime of “apostasy”.
(20) A user known as Abu Mohammed, a founder of RBSS, also reported that the woman was killed after her son accused her of apostasy.
Conversion
Definition:
(n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
(n.) The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.
(n.) An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.
(n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
(n.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
(n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
(n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
(n.) A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conversely, Tyr-52 and Tyr-147 were iodinated only in the dimer.
(2) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
(3) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(4) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(5) The enzyme, when assayed as either a phospholipase A2 or lysophospholipase, exhibited nonlinear kinetics beyond 1-2 min despite low substrate conversion.
(6) In vitro studies showed that BOF-A2 was rapidly degraded to EM-FU and CNDP in homogenates of the liver and small intestine of mice and rats, and in sera of mice, rats and human, and the conversion of EM-FU to 5-FU occurred only in the microsomal fraction of rat liver in the presence of NADPH.
(7) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(8) The effect of diethylstilbestrol (DES) on the percent conversion of a 14C-progesterone (14C-P) substrate to 14C-testosterone (14C-T) when added to incubates fo rat testicular homogenates has been measured.
(9) The conversion of orotate to UMP, catalyzed by the enzymes of complex II, was increased at 3 days (+42%), a rise sustained to 14 days.
(10) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(11) Conversely, beta-L-homo analogues of fuconojirimycin can also be regarded as derivatives of deoxymannojirimycin.
(12) Conversion of the active-site thiol to thiocyanate makes it more difficult to inactivate the enzyme by treatment with Cd2+.
(13) II, the visual and auditory stimuli were exposed conversely over the habituation- (either stimulus) and the test-periods (both stimuli).
(14) A relationship has been obtained experimentally to permit conversion of the counts to respirable mass concentrations.
(15) The presence of an inverse correlation between certain tryptophan metabolites, shown previously to be bladder carcinogens, and the N-nitrosamine content, especially after loading, was interpreted in view of the possible conversion of some tryptophan metabolites into N-nitrosamines either under endovesical conditions or during the execution of the colorimetric determination of these compounds.
(16) The data suggest that proinsulin, normally processed in secretory granules and released via the regulated pathway, may also be processed, albeit less efficiently, by the constitutive pathway conversion machinery.
(17) The extensive conversion of anti-BPDE to B[a]PT-10-sulfonate under conditions where sulfite enhances diolepoxide mutagenicity, when coupled with this enhancement of diolepoxide mutagenicity by B[a]PT-10-sulfonate in the reverse mutation assay, supports this novel B[a]P derivative as a mediator of the sulfite-dependent enhancement of B[a]P genotoxicity.
(18) Zona pellucida solubility, plasminogen activator production, and plasminogen conversion to plasmin increased as embryonic stage advanced; however, plasminogen activator production and plasmin conversion to plasmin were poorly correlated with zona pellucida solubility.
(19) PTU inhibited its own metabolism; however, complete conversion to PTU-SO3- could be achieved with optimal PTU concentrations.
(20) Conversely, the latter diminished basal plasma glucose levels.