8 sentences with 'orders'
Example sentences and phrases with the word orders and other words derived from it.
• « And although he never stops receiving orders for pizzas in droves, he never loses his temper and moves through the length and breadth of his kitchen with the speed and precision of a martial arts master in order to satisfy Neapolitans' voracious appetite for pizza. »
• « However, another police contingent, with 20 vehicles, is located about 100 meters from there, on Albrecht Tischbein Street, waiting for orders since 8:30. »
• « The Abbasid caliphs were the leaders of the political and spiritual orders of their society, trying to ensure that everything from law to commerce to religious practice ran smoothly and fairly. »
• « The backbone of the crusades were the chivalric orders: organisations of knights authorised by the church to conduct wars in the name of Christianity. These orders arose after the First Crusade, originally organised to protect Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. »
• « The concept already existed at the beginning of the Crusader period, but the orders grew rapidly through their involvement in the invasions. Two orders in particular, the Hospitallers and the Templars, would achieve great wealth and power despite their vows of poverty. »
• « After their success in taking Jerusalem, the knightly orders became very powerful and very rich. Not only did they seize the spoils, but they became caravan guards and ultimately moneylenders (the Templars became bankers after abandoning the Holy Land when Jerusalem was lost in 1187). »
• « These patterns also affected monasticism. The idea behind monastic orders had been to imitate the life of Christ, but by the early modern period, many monasteries (especially urban ones) had successful industries, and monks often lived in relative luxury compared to city dwellers. »