(n.) The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(3) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(4) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(5) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(6) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(7) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(8) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(9) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(10) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(11) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(12) The preembedding method also disclosed diffuse cytosolic immunoreactivity.
(13) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(14) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
(15) These results show that this method is useful in topographical evaluation of CBF changes.
(16) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
(17) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
(18) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(19) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(20) However, there was no consistent protocol for the method or duration of drug administration.
Protestantism
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism and Islam all get both barrels.
(2) This new protestantism drained followers even from Candomblé, the African religion brought by the slaves.
(3) Since 1990, the number of people identifying with no religion in particular has almost doubled to 46 million, largely at the expense of Catholicism and mainstream Protestantism.
(4) He cited the loss of empire and the dilution of Protestantism as a unionist ideology and the primacy of European markets over English and imperial ones.
(5) This could be a part of efforts against the penetration of western hostile forces.” While the Communist party considers itself an atheist organisation, authorities recognise five “official” religions: Buddhism , Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, and Taoism.
(6) He later remembered this environment as a "very austere one with a philosophy of life, a rigid Protestantism, from which one cannot escape easily".
(7) But as active Protestantism and the sectarian Orange Order waned in strength after the 1950s, the base of Scottish Toryism was chipped away.
(8) The explosive growth of Protestantism and Catholicism came as a surprise to Chinese society,” the Beijing-controlled newspaper claimed, adding that many non-Christians did not feel comfortable about the “exaggerated” crosses placed on some churches.
(9) Most branches of Protestantism are represented, with Methodists, Baptists, Adventists and so on.
(10) Having become too close to Protestantism, he is taken by God and replaced by the more orthodox Peter II, a designation that no real occupant of the post has ever been arrogant enough to adopt.
(11) The video, which features the same high production values common in the group’s media releases and computer generated scenes of old Islamic battles, begins with a recounting of the early history of Christianity and an outline of the schisms that led to the creation of the Coptic, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, as well as the development of Protestantism.
(12) In Korea, adherents of Protestantism grew from little more than 2% of the population in 1950 to 20% today.
(13) And as was once the case in Liverpool, working-class Toryism was inextricably linked with Protestantism and anti-Catholic sentiments.
(14) Likewise, the infertility of Charles II's wife, Catherine of Braganza, led to the succession of James II, a practicing Roman Catholic, whose attempts to undermine the Church of England led to the Glorious Revolution of 1788 and the preservation of English Protestantism.
(15) The first was a common Protestantism, whether in the established or dissenting churches.
(16) The demand for Islamic Reformation is just another brand of Islamophobia | Jason Wilson Read more I know it was some time ago that you were in the seminary, but surely you remember that the Reformation created Protestantism.
(17) It is the fantasy unity of Catholicism, Protestantism and Romanticism.
(18) The second was the continued threat of a Catholic power, France, which had demonstrated its own intolerance for Protestantism in the flood of Huguenot refugees who enriched this country.
(19) For while its attachment to Islam leaves it set apart in a land founded by pilgrims and among a racial group devoted largely to Protestantism, its belief in racial separatism left it with few allies in the Islamic or white world.
(20) In later life, FitzGerald often spoke of his desire to bring together the southern Catholic tradition of his father with the northern Protestantism of his mother, Mabel.