Example sentences of "a via " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was conceived in 1674 as a grand stairway bedecked with statues , part of the idea of a via sacra or Holy Way leading to St Vitus ' Cathedral . |
| 2 | This chapel marks the ultimate halt in a via sacra of 14 chapels which was to wind its way down the hill to the Malá Strana . |
| 3 | The present appearance of the bridge owes much to the Counter-Reformation , its famous gallery of sculpture transforming it from an ordinary thoroughfare into a via sacra ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 4 | This religious settlement has sometimes been described as a via media between Catholicism and Protestantism . |
| 5 | The various books of the resulting work , entitled A Treatise on the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity , justified the Elizabethan church as a via media between the extremes of Roman Catholicism and radical Puritanism , and defended its own particular ceremonial style and form of government . |
| 6 | Pragmatism may appropriately be referred to as a via media between , on the one hand , an empiricism and positivism that may lead to inhumanism and , on the other , a rationalistic Idealism that may become out of touch with contemporary realities . |
| 7 | For one school of modern historians this programme ( to which it attributes transcendent importance in the development of Carlism ) represents a reversion to a traditional monarchy ruling with the historic Cortes and subject to God and the law , a via media between imported liberalism and the equally foreign ministerial despotism of the eighteenth century , a truly Spanish solution of the political problem of modern Spain . ’ |