9 sentences with “openly”

Once one has talked openly with one's spouse about impotence, one can forget about it for a while rather than allowing it to become an obsession.

In many cases, popes and priests lived openly with concubines, had children, and worked to ensure that their children received lucrative positions in the Church.

This led the Scots to openly break with the king and form an army; to raise the money to fund an English response, Charles had to summon parliament. The result was civil war.

In the Netherlands and England in particular, it was possible to publish openly and/or defend scientific ideas without fear of backlash; in Newton's case, it was possible to be completely famous.

However, a growing movement within the Church of England openly embraced Calvinism, and that movement became known as Puritanism (or "low church") - still technically Anglican, but rejected by the Church hierarchy.

The emperor's greatest concern must have been to maintain the loyalty of the armies above all else, for they could and would openly fight to put their man on the throne in a moment of crisis, which happened numerous times in the centuries to come.

His son, Charles I (r. 1625 - 1649), was a much greater threat from the perspective of parliament. He strongly supported the "high church" faction of the Anglican church as Puritanism among the common people grew, and began to openly encroach on parliamentary authority.

Despite the nominal requirement not to marry, many high-ranking priests lived openly with concubines and equally openly supported their sons, seeing their sons establish themselves as landowners or members of the Church in their own right and marrying daughters into noble families.

The Catholic Church (Roman/Latin): the Catholic Church remained dominant in almost all of southern Europe, including Italy, Spain, Austria, parts of the Balkans, and kingdoms such as Poland as well. Catholic minorities existed openly or secretly depending on the relative hostility of local rulers in much of the rest of Europe.