(n.) A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hollande's surname is believed to come from Calvinist ancestors who escaped the Netherlands in the 16th century and took the name of their old country.
(2) Among other things, the novels work as a meditation on America's Calvinist conscience, its strengths and blindnesses, and the way that it moved from fanaticism to smugness in the century after the civil war.
(3) The Calvinist background I guess … Scottish blood, you know he does seem to believe in the work ethic."
(4) Do we cede them to the religious and just look like a bunch of Calvinists?
(5) She got rather cross with Simon Schama recently for what she saw, in his writings about early Dutch culture, as a faulty sense of Calvinism - "the dear old song of Renaissance Europe" as she calls it - and confronted him on a panel in New York for characterising Calvinists as a bunch of joyless busybodies.
(6) Murdoch on Blair and Brown, October 2006 "Gordon has a Calvinistic approach to life, and there is a lot to be said for it.
(7) Although Calvinist settlers suppressed the expression of Hawaiian surfing spirituality on the basis it might lead to all manner of ungodliness, there are Christian Surfers organisations worldwide nowadays – Zac Young, the 19-year-old who died in a shark attack at the weekend, was a member – and even a Jesus Pro Am in Newcastle.
(8) They embraced wholeheartedly the charismatic revival – talking in tongues, miraculous healing, fainting in the spirit, and even prophecies – all things anathema to the older Calvinist tradition that was then dominant among Cambridge evangelicals.
(9) "I said, what did you mean by 'Calvinist orthodoxy'?
(10) And, yes, there’s a certain amount of Scots Calvinist guilt in all that – in any freelance lifestyle you can’t rely on it past the next contract end.” Does he, I ask, feel guilty often?
(11) Merkel's Calvinist approach to dealing with Europe's crisis-hit southern periphery may have softened, as the leader looks to re-election next year, but as tiny Greece stares into the abyss with enough funds to survive only until the end of next month, the message was clear: apply more draconian measures and the rescue funds will keep pouring in.
(12) For instance, when South Africa's women, children and disabilities minister Lulu Xingwana went on Australian television after Steenkamp’s shooting and said Pistorius’ behaviour was typical of "young Afrikaner men who are brought up in the Calvinist religion” , she did not mention disability as potentially playing a role.
(13) That's splash sorted, then: PM DECLARES WAR ON CALVINISTS #conference October 2, 2013 From the BBC's Nick Robinson Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) Cameron speech in summary (correction): 25 x LABOUR (cf 2 LIBS, 1 COALITION & 0 CLEGG) 15 x "FINISH(ING) THE JOB" + 13 "LAND OF OPPORTUNITY" October 2, 2013 12.36pm BST Here's Ed Miliband on the speech.
(14) The second element was a conservative evangelical movement that had always been a part of the Church of England, but which gained control of the rich diocese of Sydney in Australia and attempted with great energy and some success to build up an international network of hardline Calvinist churches.
(15) The fact that they attended Welsh-language services at a Calvinistic Methodist chapel and not the English-language Church of England did not alter their British identity one bit, any more than did the fact that they read Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Mabinogion as well as Shakespeare and Dickens.
(16) "He is a very deep Calvinist who believes in the duty of people to work and I approve of that very strongly."
(17) His Calvinist imagination, quick to conjure doom, and possibly the looming shadow of debt that would end in his expulsion from the paradise garden at Concord, provoked Hawthorne to create something very like its obverse: namely a garden of death.
(18) But the eyecatcher is his section on genetics, implying human fate is sealed at birth, as the Calvinists and eugenicists thought.
(19) Millar's Calvinistic theology repelled liberals, while bishops and many of the clergy resisted church plantings on their turf.
(20) Asked whether he would be content to see the chancellor succeed Mr Blair as prime minister, he reportedly said: "He is a very deep Calvinist who believes in the duty of people to work and I approve of that very strongly."
Elect
Definition:
(a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
(a.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.
(a.) Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.
(n.) One chosen or set apart.
(n.) Those who are chosen for salvation.
(v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose.
(v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.
(v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
(2) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(3) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(4) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(5) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(6) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(7) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(8) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(9) It is concluded that extradural adrenaline does not usefully reduce systemic absorption of 0.5% bupivacaine, but may improve its efficacy in extradural anaesthesia for elective Caesarean section.
(10) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(11) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(13) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(14) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(15) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
(16) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
(17) Since the election on 7 March there has been a bitter contest for power in Iraq led by Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
(18) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
(19) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(20) Britain First applied to use seven slogans in the elections and four were rejected, but the remaining three, including the slogan relating to Rigby, were approved by the watchdog.