6 sentences with 'adherence'

Example sentences and phrases with the word adherence and other words derived from it.

« There was a fervent adherence to temperance, Prohibition and women's rights. »
« Leonid Brezhnev would hold power until 1982, overseeing a long period of what historians often characterise as stagnation: the Soviet system, including its nominal adherence to Marxism-Leninism, would remain in place, but even the elites abandoned the idea that "real" communism was feasible. »
« The governor also ordered the government to require all citizens appointed to public office to swear an oath of loyalty and adherence to the federal cause, a measure that was also extended to those finishing their university studies. »
« It should be noted that, although the term fundamentalism commonly refers to forms of thought such as those described and which are historically associated with Muslim terrorism, it can also be extended to any behaviour in which adherence to a system of ideas implies the total devaluation of the people in the group, who are considered to be merely cogs in a machine designed to fulfil a transcendent mission and which spares no means to do so. So-called fanatical behaviour corresponds to this style. »
« In relationships resulting from consensual adherence, the relationship of obedience does not disappear. For example, if we were to imagine an ideal democracy, in which there is a perfect identification between rulers and ruled, the relationship of authority would not disappear, but rather, instead of an opposition between those who command and those who obey, there would be a differentiation between those who set the rules and those who, without participating in their establishment, agree to abide by them. »
« The Congress called for a boycott of all British goods and established the Continental Association to enforce local adherence to the boycott. The Association supplanted royal control and formed resistance to Britain. »

See sentences with related words

diccio-o.com - 1998 - 2022