Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that religions exist essentially to explain the meaning of human existence in ultimate terms. Successful religious movements, he finds, maintain a high profile of unshakable beliefs, exclusiveness, strict discipline, zeal, and a distinct code of behavior. A classic case was the early Methodist movement, which achieved social power through fervent piety and preaching, and puritanical rules...
...personal qualifications to become an extremely effective popular leader. He is gregarious, highly emotional and remarkably attuned to the needs and moods of his supporters. He has an uncanny ability to remember names and faces. Mujib is also a spellbinding orator with a simplistic message and a pungent, fervent style...
...Gaelic Athletic Association but devoted most of his time to the movement. Although I.R.A. units in the North are responsible for tactical decisions, MacStiofáin as chief of staff is consulted on overall strategy. He neither drinks nor smokes, and his command presence is unmistakable. A fervent nationalist who would impose Gaelic on Ireland as its sole language if he had his way, MacStiofáin is ferociously anti-British. "I have always accepted the inevitability of force," he says in his incongruously flat London accent. "I could never see any way to achieve Ireland's freedom otherwise...
...fervent wish to be alive when we receive the first message from "out there...
...liberals. The tragedy of that encyclical was that it could have been a proud plea for the dignity of human life-as many of the overlooked paragraphs remain-at a time when human engineering was raising serious moral questions. Instead, in forbidding artificial birth control, it discouraged not only fervent Catholics who believed in change but those borderline Catholics for whom change might have been a hopeful sign...