| Rabbi Berger's pious respect for Schneerson's memory severely compromises his best efforts to combat the Lubavitchers' adoration of him. |
| By the twelfth century in England, however, aspirants to anchoritic life were pious lay people. |
| The people who stay there are at the same time loyal and treacherous, pious and blasphemous, violent and generous. |
| But their wishes, even pious ones, do not trump the natural right of parents to decide such a matter. |
| Most contemporaries cannot identify with the pious monk and virtuoso repenter who bored his superior with six-hour monologues about his sin. |
| Honest and pious Muslims opposed to Umayyads usurping power were severely persecuted. |
