8 sentences with 'somehow'
Example sentences and phrases with the word somehow and other words derived from it.
• « A great irony of the idea that Western civilisation is somehow inherently Christian is that Islam is unquestionably just as "Western". »
• « In other words, even Africans and Asians, let alone Pacific peoples or Native Americans, could have little relevance to learn from their own history that was not somehow "obsolete" in the modern era. »
• « Was Jesus human, or was He somehow God Himself? He lived as a normal man, but according to the gospels he had also performed miracles, and claimed to be the son of God. »
• « Emperor Leo III, who ruled from 717 to 741, decided to take matters into his own hands. He forced the empire's Jewish communities to convert to Christianity, convinced that their presence was somehow angering God. Then he did something far more unprecedented than persecuting Jews: he attacked icons. »
• « There was a great increase in anti-Semitic riots during outbreaks of plague, as Jews were blamed for somehow bringing on the plague (a frequent accusation was that Jews had poisoned the wells), and thousands of Jews were massacred as a result. »
• « Henry the Navigator sponsored numerous Portuguese expeditions along the west coast of Africa, hoping to somehow seize land or at least find routes to lucrative sources of gold and spices. »
• « The Bible did not explain the origins of the Amerindians, so the Spanish invented various hypotheses: Native Americans were descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel described in the Bible's Old Testament, they were somehow created and ruled by the Devil, they were simply not human beings but strange human-like animals, and so on. »
• « If God was all-powerful and all-knowing, and chose to extend his grace to some people but not to others, Calvin reasoned, it was folly to imagine that humans could somehow influence him. Not only was the Catholic insistence on good works wrong, but the very idea of free will in the face of divine intelligence could not be right. »