(a.) Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
(a.) Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
(a.) Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
(a.) Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
(n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
(3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(4) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
(5) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(6) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(7) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
(8) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(9) Males scored higher than females on theoretical and lower on religious scales.
(10) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
(11) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
(12) However, social support significantly correlated with depression and there was some indication that the type of institutional setting and frequency of religious participation also interacts with the level of depression.
(13) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(14) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(15) There are long-running tensions between the state and the region's large Uighur Muslim population, with many angered by cultural and religious restrictions imposed by the Chinese authorities and some aspiring to independence for what they call East Turkestan.
(16) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
(17) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(18) But first he flew to Saudi Arabia to make the religiously encouraged pilgrimage to Mecca; he found himself stranded in Bahrain after he was unable to enter Kenya.
(19) In the afternoon he reads historical or religious books and novels.
(20) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
Shaheed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Shaheed's findings, which are due to be officially presented to the UN in Geneva later this month, have already led to much criticism from Tehran.
(2) Allah akbar.” “Shaheed means martyr,” Weinreb said, adding: “He wrote ‘The US government is killing our innocent civilians … I can’t let this go unpunished.’” Weinreb also painted a picture of Tsarnaev’s behaviour following the bombing attack.
(3) Shaheed was appointed after various human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, issued concerted warnings about Iran's rights violation records.
(4) Since then, Iran has blocked a visit by Ahmed Shaheed , a newly appointed UN Human Rights Council investigator.
(5) "People come to me with complaints of their rights being violated, and yes they generally do hold views different from the government in Tehran," Shaheed told the Guardian.
(6) Speaking to the Guardian, Shaheed, a visiting professor at Essex University, defended his report and said his findings were based on "totally verified and documented" sources.
(7) He died as a martyr, Shaheed, and his destiny will be to go and God will reward you."
(8) Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Iran, said on Wednesday that, in Iran, at least 176 people so far had been put to death this year alone.
(9) Ahmed Shaheed's latest report charges the Islamic republic with cases of torture, executions, illegal arrests of journalists, forced confessions and denial of basic rights to religious, ethnic and sexual minorities.
(10) In June, the UN human rights council appointed former Maldivian foreign affairs minister Ahmed Shaheed as a UN special rapporteur investigating Iran, but several Iranian officials have signalled he will not be allowed to visit the country.
(11) Hiden Hassan, 37, another Shaheed Brigade fighter, said the two soldiers had driven towards them as they advanced.
(12) Or with her assertion that the Chechen terrorist leader and architect of the Beslan school massacre, Shamil Basayev, was a 'shaheed' or martyr?
(13) "We are now one and a half kilometres from Zlitan," said a rebel fighter, Mohammed Ashanobah, of the Shaheed (Martyr) Brigade.
(14) Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, accused Shaheed of "toadying to the US and Israel" with a report that he described as unsubstantiated, biased and collated from "anti-Iranian outlets and terrorist groups".
(15) Imam Salahuddin Muhammad could hardly miss Shahed Hussain when he first appeared three years ago at his mosque in the dilapidated town of Newburgh, just 60 miles up the Hudson River from New York .
(16) Soon after Shaheed assumed his mandate from the UN human rights council in June 2011, Iranian officials said they would not permit him to enter the country, saying that his appointment was unacceptable and "an illegal measure".
(17) In his latest report on the situation of human rights in Iran , UN special rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed expressed concerns about "the potentially negative humanitarian effect of general economic sanctions" and called on the countries behind the punitive measures to make sure that "humanitarian exemptions are effectively serving their intended purpose".
(18) A retrospective study of 98 patients with tetanus treatment in Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Hospital, Gujrat, over a period of three years (1973-75) is presented.
(19) Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), South Asia's oldest Islamist party, has been buffeted by a torrent of criticism from the media and political rivals after the head of the party, Munawar Hassan, declared the Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud a shaheed after he was killed.
(20) Elsewhere on that record, along with Tribe cohorts Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, he left his wallet somewhere in El Segundo, shortly before wondering whether we could kick it (yes, we could).