(a.) Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an orthodox Christian.
(a.) According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an orthodox opinion, book, etc.
(a.) Approved; conventional.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(3) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
(4) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(5) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
(6) On the regulatory side, Carney's role as chair of the Financial Stability Board suggests an individual cut from relatively orthodox cloth while working at the coal face of implementation on a range of issues.
(7) Children are taught to use condoms there,” Pokrovsky said, indicating that was hardly imaginable in modern Russia where the Orthodox church is growing increasingly influential.
(8) Judge Marina Syrova said she rejected their arguments that they had not intended to offend religious believers but were protesting against the Orthodox church's support for Putin.
(9) Rybak was indicted for inciting hatred last year after burning an effigy of an orthodox Jew during a protest against Muslim immigration.
(10) Multiple births were studied in a sample of orthodox Jewesses for whom an estimate could be made of the day of ovulation and the earliest possible day of conception.
(11) The Kremlin's Nashi youth movement spread the news that I personally was out to destroy the Orthodox family.
(12) Tsipras, who made an official visit to Moscow in April to discuss the project, has made improved ties with the fellow Orthodox state a central plank of his two-party coalition’s foreign policy – much to the consternation of the EU.
(13) A significantly increased rate of breast-feeding was found among mothers with the following characteristics: those of orthodox religious belief, high educational level, in the academic and paraacademic professions, nonsmokers, those who worked outside of the home during the pregnancy, those who had previous breast-feeding success, and mothers whose husbands' attitude toward breast-feeding was positive.
(14) Extended interviews with users explored motivations for choice of treatment and attitudes towards orthodox and alternative health care.
(15) In 1949, he graduated from the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary.
(16) But he has made it about himself and so he’s uniting the factions against him.” If the orthodox left has failed to unite behind the prime minister, the right is also in a state of ferment, as it plots eagerly for a post-Renzi era that could arrive before Christmas.
(17) The conclusion is that those mitochondria that do not undergo change in ultrastructure have impairment of electron transport, and that those that do become orthodox have increased membrane lability and undergo degeneration.
(18) This is illustrated by the Schneerson family dynasty, which has led the Lubavich sect of ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jews since its inception in the 18th century.
(19) The government has just announced emergency aid for the destitute and the Greek Orthodox Church has revealed it is feeding 250,000 people a day.
(20) Sara, 18 Occupation: A-level student Constituency: Hornsey and Wood Green Voting: Probably Labour Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sara: ‘People feel betrayed and upset about the Labour party’s antisemitism.’ Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer I’m Orthodox Jewish and, ideologically, I am a Labour supporter, but a lot of people in my community really hate the Labour party at the moment, and I don’t blame them to be honest.
Reactionary
Definition:
(a.) Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
(n.) One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(2) "A Walker victory in Wisconsin … could provide a defining moment for the Romney campaign – and for the forces of responsible Republican reform against reactionary Democratic opposition."
(3) With me, you won't have to choose between whether to accept a reactionary assault on the welfare state in exchange for greater civil liberties.
(4) He was a reactionary only in reacting against intellectual dishonesty and imposture.
(5) Those for leaving are boringly predictable and mostly reactionary (with a few on the left who seem to think that moving backwards and out is moving forwards); reason enough to vote to stay in!
(6) At the very least it will drag the Conservatives on to Ukip's reactionary agenda and, among pragmatic, young or black and minority ethnic voters, this will be at a considerable cost.
(7) So it was a reactionary thing to, 'They think I can't be crazy any more!'"
(8) A man of such ferocious spirit should not be remembered as a reactionary prude.
(9) Although they have a distinctive training advantage in the emerging quality-driven industry over that of physician-M.B.A.s, most physician-attorneys have continued to use these skills in the reactionary world of litigation, which will rapidly go the way of the dinosaur in the 1990s.
(10) The lack of unity between the National Health Service trade unions and the reactionary role of the professional body were notable.
(11) I was able to live a normal life for a year until the government banned [it] in another reactionary response to media scaremongering."
(12) Analysis of a larger series and follow-up of these patients are indicated to establish the possible reactionary nature of mast cell reactivity in lymphomas, and the prognostic bearing, if any.
(13) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(14) KL It's nothing to do with you because your paper is a load of scumbags and reactionary bigots.
(15) Along with Stevie Nicks - who has cited the band as her favourite singing group and whose song Landslide is covered on Home - Harris represents a more modern spirit of country as opposed to the reactionary world of Nashville.
(16) Other complications included a temporary Horner's syndrome in one patient, a pneumothorax in the immediate post-operative period in another and a unilateral non-infective reactionary pleural effusion in a third.
(17) We learned that the Human Rights Act will now be built on as opposed to demolished – a potent example of how a Liberal Democrat presence is helping progressive currents within the Conservatives to prevail over reactionary tides.
(18) Seriously though, hands up who's surprised that old people have reactionary views.
(19) A reactionary conservative approach to immigration – closing all the borders to keep the world at bay – can't work for our trading nation.
(20) However you dress it up it is a reactionary political philosophy.” He added: “I personally don’t think we will win by saying we are more Scottish or by engaging in this ridiculous thing where a lot of power in Brussels is fine but power in London is absolutely terrible.” He continued: “The SNP have achieved this remarkable feat, they are a government that is allowed to behave like an opposition.