For Mormonism, the intensity of the faith got sublimated into missionary zeal and commerce.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi

The occupiers came with an almost missionary zeal to remake the political, social, cultural and economic fabric of Japan.

CNN: Books: The Reinventing of Japan

My prediction: The best and brightest millennials will combine missionary zeal, hardcore management skills and Silicon Valley-style creativity to attack social ills.

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Mr Achleitner, who has preached Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism in Germany with missionary zeal, is expected to make Allianz's financial and industrial holdings sweat.

ECONOMIST: Dresdner Bank

Francis, the first pope from the Jesuit order, which is known for its missionary zeal, praised the Colombian saint for "instilling hope" in the indigenous people.

NPR: Pope Francis Gives Church Hundreds Of New Saints

They are not reassured by the fact that Mayor Gordon Bush, a reformer with a missionary zeal for fiscal righteousness, has nonetheless almost doubled the city payroll since 1990.

ECONOMIST: Urban affairs

With an infusion of missionary zeal our high streets might even be on the cusp of a new golden age of performance, talk and entertainment and not just a shivering queue outside the Apple store on a Friday night.

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But he seems like a man who would seek to define a clear message, tackling problems with a stern glee, a missionary zeal to challenge a world he feels has gone badly, sadly wrong, and that needs to be re-made in God's image, with the authority of Rome.

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Underlining its commitment to mix and match products and support open environments, IBM has adopted Java with a zeal that would make a missionary blush.

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