Sentences with 'violate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word violate and other words derived from it.
• « While many Protestants, including Luther himself, were as hostile as Catholics to new scientific ideas at first, in the long run Protestant governments proved more tolerant of ideas that seemed to violate the literal truth of the Bible. This had less to do with some kind of tolerance inherent in Protestantism than with the fact that Protestant institutions were less powerful and omnipresent than the Roman church in Catholic countries. »
• « Miracles, by their very nature, were intended to violate natural law, and according to the basic tenets of Enlightenment thinking, this was simply not possible. »