7 sentences with 'stripped'
Example sentences and phrases with the word stripped and other words derived from it.
• « Having already broken with the Catholic Church - and confiscated much of its property - the National Assembly now created a momentous precedent for religious tolerance. Religion was officially stripped of its political value for the first time in European history. »
• « Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris was stripped of its Christian iconography, and Robespierre oversaw new ceremonies designed to worship a (newly invented) supreme being of reason. »
• « Another iconic moment in the history of anti-Semitism occurred in France in the 1890s, when a French Jewish military officer named Alfred Dreyfus was framed for espionage, stripped of his rank and imprisoned. »
• « In 1935 the Nazis passed the so-called "Nuremberg Laws" that banned Jews from working in various professions, stripped Jews of their citizenship and made sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews a serious crime. »
• « A Muslim witness also described how the conquerors stripped the temple of its wealth and plundered the private houses. »
• « They also made laws that stripped free blacks of their rights, such as the right to testify against whites in court or to seek employment wherever they chose. Interestingly, it was in the upper southern states that these laws were the harshest. »