7 sentences with 'offering'
Example sentences and phrases with the word offering and other words derived from it.
• « Although they offered basic education to the laity, the official focus of the cathedral schools was the training of priests. They began to expand after 1000 CE, offering a more focused and rigorous grounding in sacred texts and, to some extent, ancient texts from Rome, to help educate Church leaders and laity. »
• « The Medici were exiled from Florence in the same year for offering territory to the French in an attempt to get them to leave Florence alone. »
• « That spiritual awakening was explicitly focused on what he described as the "Hierarchical Church": not just a worldly institution offering guidance to Christians, but the only way to salvation, imbued by God himself with spiritual authority. »
• « The US initially tried to bring him into the American camp by offering funds for a massive new dam on the Nile, but then Egyptian President Nasser made an arms deal with (communist) Czechoslovakia. The funds were refused and Nasser announced that he would instead seize the Suez Canal (which flowed directly through Egyptian territory) to pay for the dam. »
• « Even the official British declaration offering support for a Jewish homeland - the Balfour Declaration of 1917 - specifically included language promising the Arabs of Palestine (both Muslim and Christian) support for securing their own 'civil and religious rights'. In other words, the dominant European power in the area at the time, and the one that was to rule it directly from 1920 to 1947, sought to appease both sides with vague assurances. »
• « Would we really be satisfied if, after offering someone a glass of excellent wine and asking his opinion of it, he replied: "Am I not drinking it? »
• « Once he found him, he got him into his truck by offering him the job of cleaning my father's flower shop. »