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"proselytizing" Definitions
  1. the act or process of converting or attempting to convert someone to a religion or other belief system:The regulations governing the religious practice of foreigners include a ban on proselytizing.
  2. intending or attempting to convert others to a religion or other belief system:We are not a proselytizing religion, and we don’t believe that our faith is the One True Way for everyone.

237 Sentences With "proselytizing"

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One is through proselytizing our ideas by communicating and lecturing.
Wright isn't proselytizing or implying that other religions are false.
Saudi Arabia sees proselytizing as a form of soft power.
Everything was focused on proselytizing, even when we were sick.
The order literally fills in their recruiting and proselytizing themes.
At the Villa, McKibben alleges she was subjected to incessant proselytizing.
These days, pundits galore are proselytizing about the Future of Work.
" The complaint said she found the questioning and proselytizing "extremely upsetting.
This language has also often been accompanied by judgment and proselytizing.
He understood there was a campaign of proselytizing, pushed by the Saudis.
CNN is eroding the fabric of America, proselytizing, sowing distrust and disharmony.
Their conversations on dates can easily slip into proselytizing if they aren't careful.
The most important measure drops the party's commitment to "dawa," proselytizing Islamic values.
Serious concerns have been raised about Evangelicalism and proselytizing in the Air Force.
In the past, officials have suggested the community was involved in illegal proselytizing.
"I've never been a proselytizing comic, like, hey folks, listen up," he says.
It's not even really propaganda; it's proselytizing—a vehicle for prying open minds.
In part because she moved away from overt proselytizing to more discreet statement-making.
"We were nothing but proselytizing robots," said Lee Ho-yeon, 143, a former member.
Perhaps seeking to turn a half-formed philosophy into action, he gives up proselytizing.
But it comes from a mother's love, not from being a proselytizing, politicized woman.
There's righteous bemusement in India over newly converted Americans proselytizing on behalf of turmeric.
And while this is the essence of the league's current message, it needs more proselytizing.
The next few hip-hop tracks, including "Follow God," sound similar, with more emphatic proselytizing.
For years, Novak has been proselytizing for a movement that has now reached global proportions.
I seem to be constantly proselytizing for this kind of moist, saucy slow-cooked dish.
The passengers included Junaid Jamshed, a popular recording artist who later turned to Islamic proselytizing.
"He seems to be closer to setting an example than preaching or proselytizing," Mr. Pinker said.
Once Upon a Honeymoon features an inexplicable fairy angel and a lot of proselytizing about appliances.
Like many converts, Mr. Melcher, 52, began proselytizing about new media after reaching a crisis point.
I came out of the show a proselytizing convert to the music of Linda Catlin Smith.
All around Kosovo, families are grappling with the aftermath of years of proselytizing by Saudi-trained preachers.
It was heresy to a soccer demigod, who spent his days proselytizing about width, possession and interchanges.
The latter, the millennium's most hated best picture winner thus far, is proselytizing disguised as a movie.
Proselytizing is banned in the country, even though freedom of religion is protected in the country's Constitution.
They both have a yen to use their platforms for a certain amount of proselytizing as well.
I worked as an English teacher and an "undercover" missionary in a country where proselytizing was forbidden.
Manchester City, the Premier League leader, is by some distance the clearest symbol of Barcelona's proselytizing power.
He won't work with people proselytizing, but also said that he's never had anyone try to convert him.
Among them wandered evangelists like priests, proselytizing where possible and delivering the last rites to friendships where not.
Anami, who splits her time between Los Angeles and Bali, travels the world proselytizing her message of empowerment.
I wouldn't go around proselytizing barefoot, or pronouncing shamanistic phrases, as often as not false, or perform miracles.
Freeman crisscrossed the country—a trip he called Operation Icepick—proselytizing for the technique in state mental hospitals.
But he said the church never forced members to abandon school or jobs for the sake of proselytizing.
It is also dedicated to proselytizing and nonviolent reformism intended to turn Pakistan into a "pure" Islamic state.
I like to think he was talking about the difficulty of travel and not just the challenges of proselytizing.
Their mission, Mr. Lanzas said, often involves proselytizing about the newfound riches of the Ortega family and its associates.
But priests and pastors face possible accusations of proselytizing, a crime in Morocco, simply by having Moroccans attend Mass.
Islamists accused her of proselytizing for Christianity and warned her that she would be executed if she returned to Timbuktu.
More protesters arrive around 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to begin, blasting Christian music and proselytizing via loudspeaker.
Apostasy is generally considered a sin or a crime by Islamic authorities and proselytizing Muslims is outlawed in most states.
" "That is proselytizing for the most selfish, and the most basic instincts that the American people — like all people — have.
This obsessive band of keyboard warriors is so obnoxious in proselytizing its good word that it poisons its own cause.
They totally miss how condescending they're coming across: Maybe you already read the book they're proselytizing about—they wouldn't know!
Abballa spent almost three years behind bars, and was moved among jails several times because he was proselytizing for jihad.
Wade is tricked into going into a funhouse by a Hoboken punk girl who is fed up with his proselytizing.
He has employed an aggressive proselytizing program that has unnerved mainstream Christian denominations who liken the church to a cult.
The show doesn't spend a lot of time debating the philosophical future of mutantkind or proselytizing about saving the world.
The Wisconsin-based group of atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers, was enraged by the devotional and accused the preacher of proselytizing.
The foundation said Kemp's "proselytizing actions overstepped judicial authority" and has asked the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct to investigate.
The Firefox faithful have been justifiably pleased with Mozilla's recent track record and are actively proselytizing about why you should switch.
Along with the House's founders, Kae Burke and Anya Sapozhnikova, the women began proselytizing the ideal of a better party environment.
Brown told Vox that after the election, it's possible to balance the mandate to avoid political proselytizing with addressing students' fears.
The reaction to that proselytizing is no less excessive: Banners have also appeared warning that Jakarta will soon implement Shariah law.
He noted that he has been proselytizing the value of joining the B Corp community to the heads of other companies.
Kai, meanwhile, buoyed by Mr. Trump's win, begins proselytizing about the power of fear and anger, and runs for local office.
Slowly, the meaning of the book of the Letter to the Romans wasn't about proselytizing, but rather about guiding us through meditations.
He uses the model of a self-help seminar, or perhaps more appropriately, religious proselytizing, to mobilize communities all over the world.
All the videos are just Perry talking into the camera, proselytizing on his religion like he's giving a sermon to a congregation.
Most Kosovars have resisted such proselytizing, and officials in Kosovo say that support for the United States and the West remains strong.
The State Police gave no further details about the two cases, but Indiana court documents shined some light on the trooper's proselytizing.
"We're not proselytizing for one political agenda; hypocrisy, lying and buffoonery in the public sphere should just be called out," Appel said.
Whatever the global effects of decades of Saudi proselytizing, it is under greater scrutiny than ever, from outside and inside the kingdom.
If there's an occasional whiff of proselytizing here, that's because Mr. Meyer is selling not just food, but a state of mind.
They bring food and clothing, then stay to pray and sing with the men — all, it should be made plain, without proselytizing.
I see you out there proselytizing, you do op-eds, you do speaking engagements, you've come to our events, you're doing this.
On Friday, Mr. Lee urged his members to "follow the government's instructions," asking them to avoid gatherings and take their proselytizing online.
The church's practices​, like sitting tightly together and aggressively proselytizing, have been cited as factors in the quick spread of the illness.
The authorities in Iran have long made clear that Iranian-Americans with backgrounds in news gathering, military training and Christian proselytizing are suspect.
Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American Christian missionary, was arrested in November 2012 and accused of proselytizing in a country where religion is banned.
Crosses, for example, can only be displayed inside churches, proselytizing for faiths other than Islam is banned and Muslims are forbidden from converting.
Sekulow's advocacy on behalf of the group's aggressive proselytizing brought him to the attention of Pat Robertson, the religious leader and conservative activist.
Yet the speed of the evangelicals' expansion in the conflict area is new, as is their approach of blending humanitarian aid with proselytizing.
Zoos may be the key to frogs' survival, not only nurturing but proselytizing for them, so that a charmed public recognizes their worth.
When I asked him what he hoped to accomplish by spreading Buddhism — proselytizing is illegal in China — his eyebrows arched in mock amusement.
Mr. Hwang noted that the church had been proselytizing among ethnic Koreans in northeastern China, many of whom it invited to South Korea.
It seems to me that environmentalism involves not only the changes we personally make, but also proselytizing, getting more people to join us.
But in Iraq, where Islam is predominant and proselytizing on behalf of another religion can get people in serious trouble, they're not preaching.
Hundreds of thousands of Mormons have served proselytizing missions around the world, making them more sensitive to Trump's hard-line stances than other Republicans.
Boko Haram is unrecognizable from the proselytizing group it was 15 years ago, and from the semi-guerrilla army it was two years ago.
I don't remember what bike I got that day, but I do remember being mortified at my dad proselytizing about the evils of debt.
Before leaving for Iraq, Dasbar worked for Islamic State from Germany, producing propaganda videos and proselytizing to converts in online chat rooms, police said.
"With such little evidence supporting their doctrines, these fanatics should spare Americans the proselytizing," Chris W. Cox, a top N.R.A. lobbyist, wrote in November.
He served as chairman of the Kansas Republican Party and made headlines by traveling the country and proselytizing about the dangers of illegal immigration.
It also has many smaller operations, which present themselves as cafes or churches of other denominations and are used for proselytizing, said Mr. Chung.
"If that's the announced purpose and effect — of aligning ourselves with Christianity — then I would think it would sound much like proselytizing," he said.
But even the fall of the Soviet Union did not alter the equation, as the Russian church complained about Catholic proselytizing on its historical turf.
But the new document shows how President Xi Jinping is taking demands for party proselytizing even further than his predecessors did, including beyond China's borders.
You know, I guess the difficulties, people say why your proselytizing, using this pulpit in a way that&aposs not about Hollywood, not about awards.
By the time he was done, he was more famous for proselytizing the internet than he was for co-writing "Cassidy" and other Dead classics.
While it's unclear if Kim's faith had anything to do with his detention, other Americans have been severely punished for acts Pyongyang views as proselytizing.
When neither the apocalypse nor the UFO arrived, the group began proselytizing about how God had rewarded the Earth with salvation because of their vigil.
His hard-line immigration stance clashes with the more merciful views of the church, many of whose members have served proselytizing missions in Latin America.
But there's another genre that seems to have the same proselytizing agenda that champions Christianity and demonizes all other faiths (including the faithless): horror movies.
They also widely supported safe spaces for those who feel upset or threatened and free speech zones where protests or partisan proselytizing is explicitly allowed.
The Chilkats liked S. Hall Young, Muir's proselytizing companion, and granted him permission to build a Presbyterian school and mission that grew to become Haines.
Its outsize role recalls the Church's secular power — and decidedly mixed legacy — in Latin America's colonial era, when proselytizing spread deadly germs along with education.
Wells had been living in a vehicle for the better part of two decades, proselytizing the virtues of the lifestyle to anyone who'd click and listen.
Beyond his creations, in Lee, comic books had an ebullient cheerleader and goodwill ambassador, a self-described "ham" who toured college campuses proselytizing on Marvel's behalf.
The Saudis spend millions on religious schools and books proselytizing its strain of Islamic totalitarianism worldwide; Islamic State spends a lot of time leveraging social media.
And rather than proselytizing the merits of vegan living, the servers at the Claremont location pretty much left me to enjoy my meatless meal in peace.
Here was a new type of terrorism arrest: decently paid men in their 30s giving no warning signs of radicalization — no beards, no robes, no proselytizing.
He began Iran's proselytizing mission to Latin America while in Buenos Aires, recruiting individuals who today are deeply involved with Iran's missionary spread in the region.
Meanwhile, the Saudi regime has invested millions of dollars setting up religious schools, distributing books and proselytizing across the globe for its preferred strain of Islamic totalitarianism.
"Virtually all school events -- such as sports games, pep rallies, assemblies, and graduation ceremonies -- include school-sponsored Christian prayer, religious messages and/or proselytizing," read the lawsuit.
And no amount of proselytizing against Islamist extremism and for British values, whatever they are, will stop wannabe jihadists from seeking out the permission of the warrant.
A private company willing to take a risk was Bitfury, founded in 21 by a tech savant from Latvia who was proselytizing about a strange virtual industry.
In his interview last year with ethics investigators after the M.S. drug trial failed, Mr. Collins sounded a note of regret over his proselytizing for the stock.
But opponents of the spiritual leader say his conviction has nothing to do with proselytizing for a cult, saying he has had "illegitimate" sexual relations with women.
Imprisoned in England and later deported from Kenya to his native Jamaica, he has in recent years kept up his internet proselytizing from his home near Kingston.
In the nineteen-twenties, the auto magnate Henry Ford started proselytizing (successfully) for a square-dancing revival precisely because the music that accompanied it was not black.
"He had been incarcerated multiple times and was known to the prison administration for his radicalization and his proselytizing attitude," Heitz said, according to The New York Times.
And this was seen as the next phase of that, and literally ... Terence McKenna, the great mushroom proselytizer, was heavily involved, proselytizing for virtual reality and its virtues.
Proselytizing by Saudi-financed groups advocated a particularly austere form of Islam, and a renewed interest in Islam in much of the former Soviet space, sped things along.
That suggestion, which did not come to pass, came about after Orthodox Jewish volunteers went undercover, even participating in baptisms, to uncover the group's proselytizing efforts in Israel.
A nonprofit group had filed a complaint against the judge for giving the former officer a Bible and pointing her toward particular verses, saying it amounted to proselytizing.
But it's less good when you consider that the church maintains a massive force of more than 70,000 full-time proselytizing missionaries worldwide, and barely manages to tread water.
His proselytizing, the contempt he had directed at working class black people, unwed mothers and their criminal sons, had made his own moral fiber a matter of public concern.
Their proselytizing efforts, as well as the promise of education and career opportunities, enticed many Turks and Kurds among both the underprivileged and the elite to join the movement.
There are strict laws against proselytizing by non-Muslims; blasphemy and converting from Islam are strictly prohibited and those who do so face harsh punishments, potentially including the death penalty.
Religious practices like Yoruba were nearly wiped out by slavery, colonialism, and good old proselytizing from the West, but in the Caribbean, there's a growing movement to revive the faith.
This morning, he was proselytizing to about three dozen people at his group's Oath of Office Training, one of several workshops that it puts on across the country each year.
What we do know is that he became a Catholic priest and eventually returned to Ireland, where he spent much of the rest of his life proselytizing to pagan Irishmen.
His organization has fielded thousands of complaints about long-term care from L.G.B.T. seniors: disrespect from staff members, harassment by fellow residents, religious proselytizing, refusal to recognize same-sex relationships.
STARGAZERNeil deGrasse Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium and an astrophysical cheerleader, enthusiastically proselytizing through TV and books on exploding stars, black holes, cosmic quandaries and dwarf galaxies.
HUD, for example, regularly contracts with faith-based organizations; under Mr. Carson, more funds may be channeled through conservative Christian groups, with more latitude for proselytizing in government-funded buildings.
A 2005 Pentagon report found that there was a "perception of religious bias" on campus as well as examples of improper proselytizing from both cadets and officers at the school.
Raised by his family in a white supremacist religion, Mr. Kehoe traveled the county proselytizing for the Aryan Peoples Republic and recruiting others to join his family's small but lethal cell.
CONAKRY (Reuters) - A Saudi Arabian Islamic preacher was killed in eastern Guinea after proselytizing to hunting communities in a remote region near the Mali border, police and lawyers said on Friday.
The Emoji Movie opens with a voiceover from T.J. Miller proselytizing about the glory of the smartphone, which, as it turns out, is not a great way to start a movie.
The bill, which must be approved by the upper chamber and signed by President Vladimir V. Putin, also banned proselytizing, preaching and praying outside officially recognized religious institutions, among other measures.
But his task is perhaps even more fraught this time around: That audience is largely white, like Watson himself, and not necessarily receptive to the explicit proselytizing of Black church music.
Is the world today a more divided, dangerous and violent place because of the cumulative effect of five decades of oil-financed proselytizing from the historical heart of the Muslim world?
During the 1890s, Roosevelt, then working in the Civil Service Commission, spent his spare time proselytizing for the sport, extolling its virtues and blasting "fool" critics in speeches, letters, and freelance articles.
The consent decree does not have any impact beyond Webster Parish, but ACLU lawyer Bruce Hamilton said it sets a precedent for how schools act with regards to prayer and religious proselytizing.
Indeed, ''Berniebro,'' a term fancifully coined by Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic, became a catchall for a certain kind of dog-whistling, sexist proselytizing on Sanders's behalf, sometimes from his own staff.
He was an activist who, in the wake of his parents' deaths in the Holocaust, began using his soap's label as a, well, soapbox for proselytizing his "All-One!" thoughts and ideas.
The Obama administration, responding to these concerns, put in place provisions to ensure that members of the public were not subject to discrimination on the basis of religious belief or unwanted proselytizing.
De Carvajal, a trader, was arrested around 2000 as a proselytizing Jew and, while in prison, began writing a sometimes messianic memoir, the "Memorias," on pages roughly 5003 inches by 2500 inches.
It told the story of an idealistic young recruit who joins the military and gets swept up into a war that changes their perceptions of the world, all accompanied by some political proselytizing.
He's poisoning people because he thinks her adopted religion—the Esoteric Order of Dagon—is bad for Oakmont and that a few deaths will scare people away from the free fish and proselytizing.
No explanation was given initially for his arrest, but Bae is a devout Christian, which led to speculation that his faith aroused suspicion in a country where religion and proselytizing are strictly outlawed.
He and Candace Owens, his coheadliner, have spent the previous 22016 minutes proselytizing for the free market — and against "the left" — but, as both have been keen to emphasize, they love to debate.
We spent a lot of time in November and December cooking turkeys, proselytizing about the joys of eating them, encouraging people to do so more often, especially in seasons unaffiliated with holiday cheer.
Much like people in our area, who were playing it in video stores, he was pushing it and proselytizing for it in L.A. Bands, movie stars, personalities, and directors and what have you.
There but for the grace of God go I. Part of the 12-step process is making amends and changing your life, but you do that by setting a good example, not proselytizing.
Kenneth Bae, November 2012 - November 2014 A tour operator and Christian missionary from Washington State, he was sentenced to 20093 years of hard labor for hostile acts that appeared to have included proselytizing.
Tooba was in fact a true believer in the ISIS cause, and from late-2014 to mid-2016 she would spend much of her time on social media proselytizing and recruiting for it.
Given that there was no Shiite community on the island before Iran began proselytizing, Iran could not have made inroads with the communist regime in Havana under the pretext of serving local Muslims.
Central to my argument in that earlier piece, though, is the idea that progressive values are worth standing up for — and that requires some degree of proselytizing to those who aren't yet believers.
" The group sent a letter to Florida legislators in response to the pending legislation, warning of the potential for proselytizing and putting pressure on pupils to take classes "designed to promote a particular religion.
Be it saber-rattling in the South China Sea, proselytizing on American college campuses, theft of corporate secrets or censorship of the web, China has alienated one constituency after another in the United States.
Two weeks ago, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice would file a statement of interest in the case of a Christian preventing from proselytizing on campus at a Georgia college.
It was a similar pattern for Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor on charges of trying to establish a secret proselytizing network in the North.
In the case of Yovana "Rawvana" Mendoza, earlier this year, she was caught eating meat in her private life as she was still proselytizing and profiting off a vegan diet on her YouTube channel.
Much of the friction seems to have been the product of a territorial dispute, as Russian Orthodox leaders have accused the Roman Catholic Church of proselytizing in Russia and Ukraine, effectively encroaching on Orthodox turf.
During a recent five-day journey through Hui communities that fleck the arid foothills of the Tibetan plateau, several imams said proselytizing to non-Muslims was forbidden, as was contact with Islamic organizations outside China.
Black Mirror's most frustrating quality is its tendency to sound like a recently spiritual friend who enjoys proselytizing about the apocalypse, but is ready to log off as soon as the conversation gets too complex.
"The After School Satan Clubs were conceived to answer the need to have a counter-balance to evangelical after-school clubs that are currently proselytizing to children in public schools across the nation," Mesner said.
When politics — of the good or the bad kind — mess with our enjoyment of a book, it's usually because the author's proselytizing impulse has muted whatever is interesting or particular about his way of seeing.
John Allen Chau, a 26-year-old Christian missionary, went to Andaman and Nicobar islands in October with the intent of proselytizing their natives, Dependra Pathak, director general of police for the islands, told CNN.
He hails their subsequent Bitcoin proselytizing as crucial to the mainstreaming of a once-obscure currency, without acknowledging that their pitch might be self-serving, intended to drive up the price of their prized asset.
As any religious leader worth his or her salt can surely tell you, there's no better way to work up an appetite than a bit of proselytizing followed by a hearty round of spiritual enlightenment.
If you know Paul Grieco only as the proprietor of Terroir (a wine bar in TriBeCa), his childhood in a restaurant family in Toronto lends added flavor to his proselytizing for the glories of riesling.
"At no point does this initiative influence the vote or present proposals in favor of or against any party or candidate," El Palacio de Hierro said, adding that it "completely denied" undertaking "any proselytizing activity".
Many of the works on display explicitly or obliquely refer to the AIDS crisis including ACT UP/Gran Fury's neon rendition of their iconic and proselytizing SILENCE = DEATH poster campaign (displayed by the museum's entrance).
In North Korea, where the Kim family that has ruled the country for more than 70 years is revered as demigods, proselytizing is seen as an assault on the state, punishable by years of hard labor.
HILDESHEIM, Germany — For years, the authorities in Germany have warily monitored the swelling ranks of Salafists, followers of an ultraconservative branch of Islam who are known for aggressive proselytizing and their sympathies for the Islamic State.
Young Eastman grew up in his super-religious mother's Christian mission, proselytizing on the streets, probably shaking a can for coins, but now he's come out West to ask his old Uncle Eastman for a job.
"He had been incarcerated multiple times and was known to the prison administration for his radicalization and his proselytizing attitude," Mr. Heitz said of the suspect, identified as Chérif Chekatt, 29, who was born in Strasbourg.
He said they were in the country on legally issued business visas, but he suggested there were reports that they may have been proselytizing in an area of predominantly Muslim Pakistan where Islamist militants are active.
Throughout all of her proselytizing, during many early lean years in which she was barely able to support herself, and later, as she gained esteem and wealth, Ms. Goodman has always operated resolutely in the background.
I went through high school being called a fag and getting beaten up and being ostracized for being an emotional person, and so bands are a way of starting your own gang, and proselytizing your own worldview.
That particular style of proselytizing typifies the work of Antioch Community Church, whose 5,000-plus-person congregation includes the Gaines family as well as a far-reaching constellation of Magnolia employees, Fixer Upper alumni, and local leaders.
We're living in the age of specialty diets, when it seems like every other person is either a strict vegetarian or a a proselytizing Paleo adherent or a Keto freak or an ovo-lacto-something-or-other.
Life as a church member included meetings, proselytizing missions on the streets and daily progress reports on how many people they had tried to recruit and how their recruits were doing in Bible studies, former members said.
But Kemper knows that not everyone is a fan — "I am careful in my proselytizing because I think it's not for everyone," she said — and learned the hard way that her showrunner Tina Fey isn't quite as obsessed.
South Koreans were outraged when it was revealed last month that church members had received a message telling them to deny their affiliation with Shincheonji and to keep proselytizing even after the outbreak was reported among its congregation.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national group that fights to defend the separation of church and state, filed a complaint with the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct, arguing that the judge's "proselytizing" amounted to an ethics violation.
Plus, whereas the language of oughts and obligations suggests a prescriptive or proselytizing attitude, Buddhist tradition has generally been more interested in inviting people to try meditation and discover its benefits for themselves, rather than in mandating adherence.
"Virtually all school events -- such as sports games, pep rallies, assemblies, and graduation ceremonies --include school-sponsored Christian prayer, religious messages and/or proselytizing," according to the lawsuit filed with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Chinese Communist Party, under the leadership of a president keener than ever on party proselytizing, issued a directive in January calling for further effort to foster patriotism in young people nationwide, including Hong Kong, to maintain national unity.
Secretary of State John Kerry, in a speech last week, shared a recent exchange with an African counterpart, who told him that violent extremists in the minister's region were recruiting and proselytizing children as young as 5 years old.
Although Huffington's book has doubtless been helpful for many, her proselytizing leaves the misleading and slightly infuriating impression that sleep is a life-style choice, a free resource, available to all who care enough to make it a priority.
Shanay Jhaveri, assistant curator of South Asian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, attended the biennale's opening and said he was struck by how the exhibition addresses the political issues of the day without proselytizing.
Awaken 2020, which its organizers believe will spark "a massive [spiritual]awakening for this nation and the world," is also hosting a roster of prominent American Evangelicals with a history of proselytizing anti-LGBTQ views, the Daily Beast reported.
While advocates for such classes believe students ought to be able to learn about the Bible's influence on world history, culture and language, opponents tout separation of church and state and their concerns that teachers might possibly stray into proselytizing.
Unsurprisingly, there are many others who are still proselytizing the idea that the candy and beverage the kid bought before he was gunned down were intended to be mixed up in a batch of "purple drank," a codine-laced cocktail.
But it's reckless and dangerous to approach accepted medical science as one approaches faith—as if incessantly proselytizing about the grave dangers of abortion makes it true, or as though it's ever morally justifiable to deny care to women in need.
On returning to Havana the next year, Soldevilla reprised the proselytizing role that had led her to Paris, this time by cultivating a home-grown generation of artists who shared her commitment to the social, progressive ideals of abstract art.
Many observers have pointed out that a certain kind of Sanders supporter—usually affluent, almost always white, college-aged, and male—has taken his aggressive proselytizing support of Sanders past the point of persuasion and into the realm of bullying.
Thomas Hegghammer, a Norwegian terrorism expert who has advised the United States government, said the most important effect of Saudi proselytizing might have been to slow the evolution of Islam, blocking its natural accommodation to a diverse and globalized world.
That's not a statement based off scare stories by the Big Meat lobby, or the literally millions of #vegan photos on Instagram, or the fact you definitely see more vegans publicly proselytizing than you did even five years ago; it's fact.
That made him sometimes hard to relate to (to say nothing of all his Lord of Light proselytizing), but Beric sacrificed his life in the end to save Arya, allowing himself to be mauled by wights in the halls of Winterfell.
They also say people should have clear and accurate information about all the taxpayer-backed options for assistance in their area, and that the government needs to ensure that in providing money to nonprofits it is not funding Christian proselytizing.
In the collection "Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues," from 1982, he evoked the tribulations of the proselytizing Jesuit missionary of the poem's title and his eventual death at the hands of his Mohawk captors in 1646 in what is now the Albany area.
They also say people should have clear and accurate information about all the taxpayer-backed options for assistance in their area, and that the government needs to ensure that in providing money to non-profits it is not funding Christian proselytizing.
While the university's chancellor, Park Chan-mo, said the arrests were not related to the teachers' work at the school, the men were accused of "hostile acts," a charge that is often used against people accused of spying or proselytizing.
Young people looking for a laugh, proselytizing UFO believers, and small-town locals — both resentful of the attention directed toward the tiny town of Rachel, Nevada, and looking to capitalize on it — are all set to descend upon Area 51.
In September 2001, after stints of organizing and recruiting for H.T. in London and Pakistan, Nawaz took his first wife and their infant son to Alexandria, Egypt, where he posed as an Arabic-language student while secretly proselytizing for the group.
You don't want to become a stereotype of a crotchety octogenarian, proselytizing about the Good Old Days when people just talked to each other goddammit, and when you didn't need to remember all of these goddamn buttons to just send a simple message.
Saudi Arabia's well-financed proselytizing, mosque-building and religious school creating around the world had a force unlike all others because it came from the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammed, and the home of the religion's two holiest places, Mecca and Medina.
Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary held in North Korea on charges of trying to establish a secret proselytizing network, was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the spring of 2013, amid rising tensions with Washington following its third nuclear test.
At this point, BlessU-2 is more of a novelty than a symbol of divinity—and who knows what it'd start proselytizing if hackers ever got their hands on it—but if religion and technology continue to intertwine, people should start getting comfortable.
When he says that, he is surely referring to so-called crisis pregnancy centers, which try to dissuade women from ending a pregnancy, often through deception, scare tactics and Christian proselytizing, and to which Governor Pence has funneled millions of Indiana taxpayers' dollars.
There is the sense that, at the very least, the inhabitants of North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands located some 700 miles off India's eastern coast, were justified in meeting Chau's insistent proselytizing with a hail of arrows.
Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to establish a secret proselytizing network, was freed in 2014, after the United States government sent its director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper Jr., to North Korea.
At 89, he is mostly blind and suffers from diabetes, but he spoke with us for more than an hour, adeptly responding to questions that the authorities might find objectionable, including any suggestion that Fo Guang Shan is proselytizing in mainland China.
The "Book of Mormon Videos" are being put on YouTube (viewable in internet-friendly snippets of a couple minutes each) so anyone who wants to watch them can: Missionaries who will use them as proselytizing tools or members who might show them to their kids.
The 215-year-old American, identified as John Allen Chau, came to India on a tourist visa but came to the Andaman and Nicobar islands in October with the express purpose of proselytizing, Dependra Pathak, director general of police of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, told CNN.
It's hard to tell precisely what the thinking was behind this, given the broadly inclusive nature of L'Engle's Christianity — you'd be hard-pressed to call Wrinkle anything like proselytizing, and because of this, it has been the subject of vehement criticism from some conservative Christians for decades.
And generous Saudi funding for professorships and research centers at American universities, including the most elite institutions, has deterred criticism and discouraged research on the effects of Wahhabi proselytizing, according to Mr. McCants — who is working on a book about the Saudi impact on global Islam — and other scholars.
Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary sentenced to 15 years' hard labor after he was charged with trying to establish a secret proselytizing network, was freed in 2014 after the American government sent the director of national intelligence at the time, James R. Clapper Jr., to North Korea.
If you loved last week's blood-soaked hour of torture porn, chances are "The Well" bored you to tears, but these kinds of episodes are the ones that I find most interesting, even if they often hew toward portentous dialogue and proselytizing just to prove how clever the writers are.
"In 2011, a local patient visitation policy was issued at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that was written to prevent unsolicited proselytizing from religious groups, including the distribution of their religious items to patients who had not asked for them," the Pentagon said in a statement sent to CNN.
" A valuable part of this opinion was the context Judge Pillard provided for understanding who the plaintiffs were (most, although not all, Catholic-related) and how broadly their claim to a religious exemption swept: "Catholic nonprofits have a long and broad history of service that goes far beyond worship or proselytizing.
He does well with a friendly, proselytizing Muslim named Tariq; a resolute Palestinian named Ibrahim, whose family lost its orchard to the barrier constructed between Israel and the West Bank; and a pot-smoking young Israeli named Amir, haunted by a bombing that killed his friends in front of him.
I went to summer camp at a Baptist church, the one where Jessica Simpson's father was once a minister, because it was cheaper than the secular ones in the area, and there was only the lightest bit of proselytizing in between trips to the swimming pool and the bowling alley.
In arguing that Rohingya are illegal immigrants who promote an exclusivist and proselytizing religion that is bent on geographical and cultural conquest through conversion and marriage, some Buddhist leaders in Myanmar thus exploit the very same presumption of uniform tolerance and peacefulness that makes many Westerners uniquely surprised by Buddhist violence.
"Although they are often dressed up in neutral terms and they say these courses are not allowed to promote religion, these schools know that when it comes to implementing these courses, students are subjected to religious proselytizing and minority students are subjected to feeling excluded when these courses are offered," she said.
She began as a volunteer clinic escort in 2013, during the annual 40 Days for Life campaign in which anti-abortion protesters gather outside the clinic, and others around the world, in larger numbers than usual for 40 days, typically in the fall, often proselytizing and holding up signs as women come in and out.
Although the evening as a whole has been widely described as nonpolitical, with Kevin Spacey as host opting to mock the nominated productions instead the news, and most presenters and nominees seemingly steering away from any obvious proselytizing (Stephen Colbert being a notable exception), in fact a pretty serious statement was made by most of the crowd.
Besides proselytizing for democracy with his epic Four Freedoms series (a quartet of paintings depicting freedom of speech and worship as well as freedom from fear and want — the last of these featuring his celebrated image of a family's Thanksgiving feast), he'd regaled Post readers with covers featuring a regally posed Rosie the Riveter and a youthful soldier's homecoming.
He returned with Kenneth Bae, then a 46-year-old Korean-American missionary, who had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor after North Korea convicted him of proselytizing, and Matthew Todd Miller, a 25-year-old American who was charged with "unruly behavior" after he tore up his passport and for trying to infiltrate the country's prison camps.
A lapsed Catholic, he now announced himself a Spiritualist, but did not begin proselytizing for his new creed until World War I. The deaths of his oldest son, Kingsley (in 1918), his brother (the following year) and two nephews (shortly after the war) led him to embrace Spiritualism with all his heart, convinced it was a "New Revelation" delivered by God to console the bereaved.
" Among those policies and practices: "Incorporating official prayer into myriad school events,""allowing staff and guest speakers to proselytize students during school events,""subjecting students to religious iconography via displays in classroom and other locations,""holding school events at religious facilities,""using instruction materials, such as movies, that feature proselytizing and promotion of religion,""and granting preferential treatment to the Fellow of Christian Athletes, a religious student club.
The truth is that Patch in 2019 is not that far off from the pitch former AOL CEO Tim Armstrong used to deliver when he was proselytizing for Patch years ago: A mix of timely updates produced by a fast-typing team of local reporters, supported by ads for local businesses, on a platform designed to let local readers and advertisers load their own stuff onto the site.

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