(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the Bible; as, biblical learning; biblical authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roberts can't really explain why Wu Lyf's lyrics are full of neo-biblical imagery – all blood and fire and crowns – nor why one of their main insignia is a cross, but he does admit that he got suspended from secondary school for putting a picture of Ho Chi Minh's face on Christ's body.
(2) Being able to look ahead, being able to make a correct prediction of events and developments has been of great interest to mankind since biblical times and with good reason.
(3) 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.
(4) It is true that the further you are from the Ebola crisis, the more biblically paranoid you are about the disease.
(5) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(6) Haemophilia is a rare inherited disease of blood clotting known since biblical times.
(7) Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson , who is currently positioned second in the polls behind Trump, was given respectful time to explain the medical consensus dismissing what many see as crackpot theories about vaccines and autism – but was only pressed briefly on his own arguably equally crackpot assertion that any form of progressive taxation amounts to socialism and the US should opt for a biblical tithe system instead.
(8) Titanic now comes in behind 1977's Star Wars, 1965's The Sound of Music, 1982's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, and even the 1956 Charlton Heston biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
(9) When David Moyes was unveiled as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor after 27 trophy-laden years at Old Trafford, the rhetoric was almost biblical.
(10) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(11) As in a mosque, worshippers remove their shoes before entering the historic building, where biblical quotations are emblazoned on the walls in English, Hebrew and Persian scripts.
(12) On the Israeli side, some also argue for one state, but one in which Palestinians are denied full democratic rights, thus ensuring the Israeli hold on the biblical land of Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank) and Jewish dominance.
(13) The message which comes from these sanctions is that the biblical standard must be held by all,” he said.
(14) Kony, a self-professed spirit medium intent on governing Uganda using biblical commandments and Acholi traditions, launched his insurgency in 1987.
(15) This paper traces the history of disturbed sleep, deep pain and exhaustion from biblical times to the present.
(16) I look forward to what the least biblical of biblical films will do with this most malleable of texts.
(17) White House officials also revealed the Pentagon was providing “non-lethal” assistance to the Ukrainian military and claimed there were signs of human rights abuses against minorities in Crimea, including the apparent torture of dead Tatar man and “houses marked in a biblical fashion”.
(18) It was a biblical model by which workers in these parts measured their worth to the community.
(19) It was somehow fitting that the day the US and Cuba announced the end of decades of hostilities was also the feast of San Lazaro, or St Lazarus – the biblical figure who rose from the dead.
(20) Mother Abigail's dreams come courtesy of God; she is his prophet, and she assembles her own biblical-type followers.
Brotherhood
Definition:
(n.) The state of being brothers or a brother.
(n.) An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
(n.) The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.
(n.) Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(2) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(3) Scaf criticised the Muslim Brotherhood for its premature announcement of the results and stated it was "one of the main causes of division and confusion prevailing the political arena".
(4) But Abul Fotouh, an independent Islamist and Brotherhood renegade, also appeals to many liberals and supporters of the revolution, as well as some Salafists.
(5) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(6) Egypt's government has been unable to provide evidence linking the Brotherhood to the attack.
(7) Abul Fotouh would be more likely to win, since Morsi could only count on the Brotherhood's votes.
(8) Such terrorism, they claim, is led or incited by the Muslim Brotherhood.
(9) Officials and almost all media outlets say Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group that is behind all attacks on the Egyptian state – but have thus far provided no evidence of their involvement.
(10) Prosecutors said he would now face additional charges connected to an alleged collaboration with the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah, two groups that, like Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, are adherents to political Islam.
(11) "Qatar is using the Brotherhood to promote its own interests.
(12) Reports from the scenes of Muslim Brotherhood and Freedom and Justice Party rallies conveyed a dour mood in Cairo, while active clashes were reported in both coastal cities and upper Egypt.
(13) He presents Egypt's most popular TV programme, al-Bernameg ( "the programme" ), which scrutinises the failings of the Islamists and has made him a leading opponent of President Mohamed Morsi and an enemy of the Muslim Brotherhood.
(14) In addition, all the defendants had been accused of support for the Muslim Brotherhood, a group associated with anti-semitism – although many say they had nothing to do with the brotherhood or the murder.
(15) The war on civil society has come in two forms, with the main target being the Muslim Brotherhood.
(16) It was, in a critical sense, our nation’s baptism of fire – and 8,000 Australians didn’t come back.” Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sought to underline the theme of reconciliation: “The sons of nations who fought each other on opposing sides 100 years ago will gather under the same roof to convey the message of peace and brotherhood to the world,” he said.
(17) Another spanner in the Brotherhood's works was the recent decision by the supreme constitutional court to dissolve parliament, in which it was the majority bloc through its political arm, the Freedom and Justice party.
(18) The Brotherhood's Libyan incarnation won only 10% of the vote in last year's congressional elections, but gained support with its campaign to mandate wholesale purges of Gaddafi-era officials.
(19) Any application for special mission status is considered on its overall merits and may be accepted or refused on legal or policy grounds.” Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions who is acting for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as well as the FJP, said: “There is strong evidence [Sisi] is guilty of serious and very public crimes, including the mass shooting of demonstrators, forced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, the organisation of farcical trials involving mass sentences of death.
(20) A few months after the arms deal rebuff the prime minster announced a review of the Brotherhood’s activities in the UK.