Sentence examples for * the observances from inspiring English sources

Back in Newtown the observances for Boston began Monday.

If anything, the observances have been expanding and are likely to grow still more in 2011, the centennial year.

Sumantra detailed the observances his family makes daily with flowers, coins, incense, offerings, prayers and myriad ceremonies.

And the observances of WoW are, like those that take place in a cathedral, calmingly repetitious and governed by rules.

It will include the observances of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson as well as those of a somewhat more edgy cast of lesser-known characters.

All this is once again being aired and tutted over in France and elsewhere as one of the observances of the centenary of her birth this week.

Rugby league's scrums are the oddest observances.

The inmates run many of the holiday observances.

I refrained, modestly, from also telling him that I had been chairman of the anniversary observances.

Many 16th and 17th century Puritans rejected the traditional observances that marked medieval life.

"Employers have a duty to accommodate reasonably the religious observances, practices and beliefs," Mr. Lee said in a statement.