8 sentences with “articles”

Nevertheless, the articles constituted a continuous and sinister stream of prejudices.

European scholars wrote impassioned articles about how Greece, as the cradle of European culture, needed to free itself from the "oriental" tyranny of the Turks.

Voltaire was also an amateur scientist and philosopher - he wrote many of the most important articles in the "official" handbook of the Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie.

Although its co-inventors, Jean le Rond D Alembert and Denis Diderot, wrote many of the articles, most were written by other philosophers, including (as mentioned above) Voltaire.

Voltaire wrote essays and articles denouncing the unjust punishment of the innocent and personally convinced the French King Louis XV to commute the sentences of certain individuals unjustly convicted of crimes.

At this council, Church officials debated all the articles and accusations that had been made against the Church, from the sale of indulgences, to the importance of good works in salvation, to the spiritual necessity of the sacraments.

In one of his articles, addressed to pediatric neurosurgeons, he observes, "Our obligations go beyond the mechanical execution of a complex surgical procedure; they include the commitment to be part of a distressed family in their hour of greatest need."

Likewise, imperialism, the practice of invading other parts of the world to establish and expand global empires, received much of its popular support from articles praising the civilising mission of occupying a couple of thousand square miles in Africa that the reader had never heard of before.