(a.) General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are extremely ecumenical in our approach to elected officials."
(2) This is an ecumenical insurrection where full-time activists and union leaders worried about jobs are joined by retirees and local mothers.
(3) Henry Barnes The clergy may not be entirely trustworthy This may not be big news to cinemagoers – sneering at religious types goes all the way back to DW Griffith's Intolerance – but Cannes boasts an impressively ecumenical approach.
(4) Members of a Roman Catholic ecumenical community are to take up residence in Lambeth palace next year, breaking five centuries of Anglican tradition and heralding a further rapprochement between the churches of England and Rome.
(5) Ecumenical pressure group Church Action on Poverty (CAP) warned that there was still a "huge gap between those in poverty and those in the rest of society."
(6) Yes, it has been a long ecumenical winter, she says, but sometimes the personalities of those at the top are sufficient to bring about a thaw: "A Christian must always hope – that's part of the job description, really – and spring always follows winter."
(7) Williams, who led the ecumenical service, said a paralysing sense of fear and selfishness would deny future generations a "stable, productive and balanced world to live in" and instead give them a world of "utterly chaotic and disruptive change, of devastation and desertification, of biological impoverishment and degradation."
(8) The bill faces an unprecedented breadth of opposition, encompassing everyone from the Taxpayers' Alliance and Oxfam to the Women's Institute and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance.
(9) The Greek Orthodox Church, which has representatives across the Middle East, has also weighed in, and the Greece's prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has appealed for help to Istanbul-based ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox faithful.
(10) Later on Saturday, Bartholomew I, with whom the pope shares close personal ties, is to receive Francis at the ecumenical patriarchate.
(11) Abbott and Poroshenko attended an ecumenical church service on Thursday to honour the nearly 300 victims of the MH17 disaster, 38 of whom were Australian.
(12) The Rev Canon Dr Judith Maltby, chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a reader in church history at the university, said that while many lay and clerical members of both churches got on well, the Roman Catholic and Anglican hierarchies were living through an "ecumenical winter".
(13) Although neither the Vatican nor Lambeth Palace has provided many details of the visit, Rome has stressed its importance as an ecumenical event and highlighted the two men's shared commitment to tackling poverty.
(14) It has not hurt that Welby's personal spiritual director is a Benedictine monk; nor that the archbishop recently signalled a further rapprochement by inviting members of a Roman Catholic ecumenical community to take up residence in Lambeth Palace .
(15) Bartholomew attended Francis’s investiture last year, the first ecumenical patriarch to attend such a ceremony in Rome since the two churches split almost 1,000 years ago.
(16) Such foes were baffled by the boyish camaraderie of old Fleet Street, not to say its tradition of ecumenical friendship: before he had a London flat of his own, Waugh used to stay with his great friend Paul Foot.
(17) From the Vatican’s standpoint, another important aspect of the visit will be the opportunity to consolidate the papacy’s good relations with the ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew I, the pre-eminent spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians.
(18) Politicians gathered for an ecumenical service in the memorial church on Tuesday evening.
(19) "There is a need to create an ecumenical alliance against poverty, inequalities, against the logic that markets and profits are above people."
(20) But more than being a proselytist, this seems to be a pope that works toward unity, who adopts a new ecumenism, who embraces the Pentecostals – as he did as a cardinal in Argentina.
Worldwide
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The challenge now is to use the available vaccines to extend control to the developing countries and eventually to achieve elimination of the disease worldwide.
(2) Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by strains belonging to several different mating populations of Gibberella fujikuroi (anamorphs, Fusarium section Liseola), a major pathogen of maize and sorghum worldwide.
(3) Its first two features, Earth and Oceans , together took nearly $200m worldwide.
(4) The worldwide pattern of movement of DDT residues appears to be from the land through the atmosphere into the oceans and into the oceanic abyss.
(5) The first versions, without mobile connectivity, will go on sale worldwide at the end of March, priced from $499 in the US; UK prices are not yet set.
(6) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(7) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(8) We review the technique and its potential indications and present the latest UK and worldwide survival data.
(9) Taxol has been demonstrated in numerous laboratories worldwide to have broad-spectrum antitumor activity against many tumor models.
(10) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(11) It cut 6% to 7% of its workforce worldwide – between 900 and 1,050 of a 15,000-strong staff.
(12) The kidnappings triggered worldwide protests and military assistance from western governments, but 219 girls are still missing.
(13) He also raised questions about whether the corporation’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide , could better exploit its intellectual property.
(14) Observations of worldwide attitudes toward the increasing problems of aging are presented.
(15) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(16) Thus the innocuousness and ubiquitous availability of dextromethorphan render it attractive for worldwide pharmacogenetic investigations in man.
(17) The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has resulted in a worldwide pandemic of infection.
(18) As I outlined during our meeting, I believe we can strengthen both of our companies by bringing them together, enhancing their worldwide scale and scope, and capitalizing on significant opportunities, building on the position of Kraft Foods Inc. ("Kraft Foods") as a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionery and quick meals for the benefit of all of our respective stakeholders.
(19) Fifa's final accounts for the four-year financial cycle linked to the 2010 World Cup showed $2.4bn in broadcast sales worldwide.
(20) Penguin Random House will be run by Markus Dohle, chairman and chief executive of Random House Worldwide.