(n.) The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
Example Sentences:
(1) To commit suicide is to stop out of one's own history and eschatology, an act devoid of freedom.
(2) Very soon, speculation suggests that there will be further democratisation, with a promised next phase in this digitally eschatological view of history: the Apple tablet computer or iSlate.
(3) If life is vocational it has an inborn eschatology.
Mahdi
Definition:
(n.) Among Mohammedans, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Mohammedans, believe that he is yet to appear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 10.01am BST 9.20am BST UK foreign secretary to announce new support "to help save lives" The UK foreign secretary says he has some news on Syria ... William Hague (@WilliamJHague) Today I will announce details of new UK support to help save lives in # Syria , at 10.30am BST August 10, 2012 Updated at 10.01am BST 9.17am BST Irish-Libyan commander leading Syrian brigade "A soft-spoken Libyan-born Irish citizen named Mahdi al-Harati", is leading the Liwa al-Ummah brigade in Syria, a group he says is separate from the Free Syrian Army, Mary Fitzgerald writes for Foreign Policy.
(2) Coming home can be fairly straightforward for some, such as Mahdi Hussein Benwan, who travelled from Baghdad to Norway in 2014, couldn’t get asylum, and so came back to his IT business several months later.
(3) Chanting battle hymns, they jogged past buildings still pockmarked by clashes with US forces who occupied the area in 2008 and had fought running battles with the Mahdi army for most of the nine years that they remained in Iraq.
(4) And in each of them, Shias fighting under the names of Asa'ib, or of the rebranded Jaish al-Mahdi, have been prominent.
(5) As security unravelled in the country's north and centre, the radical Shia Islamic leader Moqtada al-Sadr threatened to reform the Mahdi army – a key protagonist in the sectarian war that nearly ripped Iraq apart in the wake of the US invasion.
(6) Citizens' main concern is survival after the government gave up on its responsibility to provide subsidies," said al-Mahdi, of the National Umma Party.
(7) Rather, solid plans, in cooperation with the Iraqi government, should be put in place to confront and eliminate the terrorists,” said al-Sistani’s spokesman Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalaie in his Friday sermon in the holy city of Karbala.
(8) The IDF said 23-year-old Mahdi Mohammed was shot near the Ibrahimi mosque after he attacked a soldier, who was lightly wounded.
(9) There is his bullet-scarred house in a Khartoum suburb, his plane sitting at the airport, the companies he owned, the bank accounts... "He was investing heavily, he was doing the country a lot of good," says Mahdi Ibrahim Mohamed, the information minister.
(10) Confirmation of their military role was contained in a personnel list issued by the Office of the Martyr al-Sadr (OMS), which revealed Leigh Day’s clients were Mahdi Army fighters rather than civilians.
(11) Fighting had broken out after members of the Mahdi Army Shia militia ambushed a UK military patrol.
(12) The removal of subsidies is an economically sound move, but it should have been done in a different way,” said Abda al-Mahdi, an economist and former state minister of finance.
(13) The case of Mahdi Hashi Mahdi Hashi was five years old when his family moved to London from Somalia.
(14) Rabin never wanted a Palestinian state,” insisted Mahdi Abdel-Hadi of the Passia thinktank.
(15) In Washington, cab driver Mahdi Abdi said he had been driving since around midnight and the main roads were clear.
(16) The designated defence minister, Al-Mahdi al-Barghathi, is one of eastern Libya’s army commanders.
(17) The Mahdi army and Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (a powerful Iranian-backed Shia rival group) are coming here most days.
(18) Three other men, Isa Abdullah Kadhem Ali, Sayyed Sadiq Ali Mahdi and Husain Jaafar Abdulkareem, were sentenced to life in prison over the deaths of the two policemen.
(19) "I felt they were out to kill us," Mahdi Jasim Abdullah al-Behadili told the public inquiry into allegations that British soldiers murdered up to 20 unarmed Iraqis and abused up to nine others following a fierce firefight with insurgents on 14 May 2004.
(20) Others are scared to give their names when they talk about the Bin Ladens, but Al-Mahdi, the wife of Hassan Turabi, architect of Sudan's Islamic revolution and Bin Laden's friend, is happy to reminisce - her husband has just been imprisoned.