Church example sentences

Till the eighteenth century, people in Europe saw themselves as subjects of an empire, such as the Austro-Hungarian empire, or members of a church, such as the Greek Orthodox church.Conservatives believed that established, traditional institutions of state and society – like the monarchy, the Church, social hierarchies, property and the family – should be preserved.Ah, how well I remember it, that last lesson! All at once the church-clock struck twelve.When, at about ten o'clock, they drove back from the church, the young girl sat and hung her head even more dejectedly than usual.The English boarding school was the institution that trained English boys for careers in the military, the civil service and the church, the three great institutions of imperial England.They could not even visit the churches where the whites worshipped.We should remember that at this time European states usually discriminated in favour of one religion or another (Britain favoured the Church of England, Austria and Spain favoured the Catholic Church).But the nobility, the crown and the Orthodox Church owned large properties.When the Frankfurt parliament convened in the Church of St Paul, women were admitted only as observers to stand in the visitors' gallery.Polish was used for Church gatherings and all religious instruction.At church she had learned that one of the old crofters of the ironworks had been robbed by a man who went around selling rattraps.They were not supported by the state or the church.The majority religion was Russian Orthodox Christianity – which had grown out of the Greek Orthodox Church – but the empire also included Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and Buddhists.The landlords, the rich and the Church opposed his policies.Luther felt that several practices in the Roman Catholic Church went against the teachings of the Bible.