That he enjoyed warfare there can be no doubt ; yet he was not like the ordinary fighting bishops of the Middle Ages, whose sole indication of their religious role was to avoid the shedding of blood by using a mace in battle instead of a sword.

In Ireland, Shane Butler said that AA “ looks like it couldn ’ t survive as there ’ s no leadership or top-level telling local cumanns what to do, but it has worked and proved itself extremely robust .” Butler attributed this to " AA ’ s ' inverted pyramid ' style of governance has helped it to avoid many of the pitfalls that political and religious institutions have encountered since it was established here in 1946.

Some Jewish personnel avoided flying over German lines during WWII with ID tags that indicated their religion, and some Jewish personnel avoid the religious designation today out of concern that they could be captured by extremists who are anti-semitic.

Although " prescriptions " against the possibly deleterious consequences of these kinds of encounters vary, from Kierkegaard's religious " stage " to Camus ' insistence on persevering in spite of absurdity, the concern with helping people avoid living their lives in ways that put them in the perpetual danger of having everything meaningful break down is common to most existentialist philosophers.

They were a Huguenot ( French Protestant ) family who fled to New York about 1687 to avoid the religious persecutions of King Louis XIV.

He also argued that the current framework is moral, both because proving mamzer status sufficiently beyond all doubt is already so difficult that it is rare, and because the mere existence and possibility of mamzerut status, even if rarely enforced, creates an important incentive for divorcing parties to obtain a get ( Jewish religious divorce ) to avoid the sin of adultery.

Some people enjoy many different sexual activities, while others avoid sexual activities altogether for religious or other reasons ( see chastity, sexual abstinence, asexuality ).

Marcus credits his mother with teaching him " religious piety, simplicity in diet " and how to avoid " the ways of the rich ".

However, the followers of Buddhism usually avoid the term God, for it savors so much of Christianity, whose spirit is not always exactly in accord with the Buddhist interpretation of religious experience.

Modern religious groups tend to avoid such symbolism and some may be quite uncomfortable with the concept.

To avoid confusion, this article is about Unitarianism as a religious movement ( proper noun ).

He wished to avoid making any conclusions due to the possible conflict with contemporary religious beliefs. Base of the Human brain | brain, showing optic chiasm a, cerebellum, olfactory bulb s, etc.

A common aspect of many policies following the second approach is that they avoid presenting any specific ethnic, religious, or cultural community values as central.

The new term was constructed to avoid association with religious practices, that were prone to being labeled as " feudal superstition " and persecuted during the Maoist era.

These scholars prefer terms like " spiritual movement ", " new religious syncretism ", or " new religious movement " to avoid the negative connotations of " cult " or to avoid improperly categorizing those which do not fit mainstream definitions.

However, due to his religious convictions, Baudouin asked the Government to declare him temporarily unable to reign so that he could avoid signing the measure into law.

York tries to avoid induction into the Army for World War I as a conscientious objector due to his religious beliefs but gets drafted into the Army nonetheless.

The National Center for Abuse and Neglect devised the term religious abuse to describe exorcisms, poisonings and drownings of children in non-satanic religious settings in order to avoid confusion with SRA.

In the fall of 1838, more than 600 Saxon Lutherans, under the leadership of Pastor Martin Stephan, uprooted themselves and migrated to Missouri, seeking to avoid the enforced religious conformity brought about by the Prussian Union of churches.

When he began his afternoon program in September, management closely monitored Stern, telling him to avoid talk of a sexual and religious nature.

Apollo warns Demos in an oracle to avoid it and it is suggested that the hand belongs to a religious fanatic and oracle monger, Diopeithes ( lines 1081-85 ).

He then escaped to Berlin, and gave his first name as Arnold, possibly to avoid anti-Semitic persecution.

Despite their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.

Self-exile is often depicted as a form of protest by the person that claims it, to avoid persecution or legal matters ( such as tax or criminal allegations ), an act of shame or repentance, or isolating oneself to be able to devote time to a particular thing.

* As the author saw it, at least some among them were being tempted to avoid severe persecution by " shrinking back " from the eschatalogical fulfillment of the true hope and faith of the Old Testament proclaimed by the apostolic witness to Jesus Christ.

All public officials were to swear an oath of loyalty to the monarch as the supreme governor or risk disqualification from office ; the heresy laws were repealed, to avoid a repeat of the persecution of dissenters practised by Mary.

Lykaion while in exile from the mid-440s BC until 427, where he built a house straddling the sacred region ( temenos ) of Zeus to avoid further persecution.

To avoid persecution from New York residents, the members moved to Kirtland, Ohio and hoped to establish a permanent New Jerusalem or City of Zion in Jackson County, Missouri.

With the formation of five Central Asian republics under the USSR, many Tajiks were forced to sign themselves as Uzbek to avoid persecution in current Uzbekistan.

* In order to avoid Septimus Severus ' persecution of Christians, Clement of Alexandria seeks refuge with Alexander in Cappadocia.

Although she moved from Germany to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi persecution, in 1942 she was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died in the gas chamber.

Initially, some Hmong groups staged attacks against Pathet Lao and Vietnamese troops while others remained in hiding to avoid military retaliation and persecution.

" Eshaghian's documentary, Be Like Others, chronicles a number of stories of Iranian gay men who feel transitioning is the only way to avoid further persecution, jail and / or execution.

After the Red Army victory in the Russian Civil War, many Kuban Cossacks, fled the country to avoid persecution from the Bolsheviks.

Many men in Uvalde County fought for the Confederacy, while some Unionists fled to Mexico to avoid persecution.

The town was formerly known as Kiel until World War I, when residents changed the name to Loyal to avoid anti-German persecution.

Until 1924, the government continued to pay stipends to Manchu bannermen ; however, many cut their links with their banners and took on Han-style names in shame and to avoid persecution.

In the late 3rd century, to avoid persecution, its authoritative decisions were issued under the name of Beth HaMidrash.

In 1952 Strauss published Persecution and the Art of Writing, commonly understood to advance the argument that some philosophers write in such a way as to avoid persecution by political or religious authorities.

* Friedrich Schiller leaves Stuttgart for Weimar to avoid persecution.

In 1998, Zardad fled to Britain using a false passport to avoid persecution under the ruling Taliban, and requested asylum.

Throughout this period Patriarch Justinian was careful to say the right things and avoid giving offence to the government ; indeed the hierarchy claimed the arrests were not due religious persecution.

He joined the Separatist movement and travelled from England to Holland to avoid religious persecution under James I.

After 13 years of prophethood, the Muslim community of Makkah made Hijrah / emigrated to the city of Yathrib, which subsequently became known as Madinah, to avoid their often murderous persecution by the pagans of Makkah.

Lomax went to Spain in 1952-3 to avoid persecution as a Communist and found some hostility from Spanish researchers, then in a period of great political upheaval.