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3 total sentences available.
Regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them, have a marked life cycle. In youth they are vigorous, aggressive, evangelistic, and even intolerant. Later they mellow, and in old age—after a matter of ten or fifteen years—they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.
Source: tatoeba (6287116)
His time had been occupied to the utmost; and marvellous had been the results of his evangelistic labours.
Source: tatoeba (11984985)
I was pretty evangelistic about the merits of working in a small team.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include abbatial, abbatical, advocacy oriented, apocalyptic, apostolic.
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