Sentence examples for deliver a prayer from inspiring English sources

Can a student deliver a prayer before a high-school football game?

Officials in Greece, a town of about 100,000 in western New York, invite local clergy members to deliver a prayer before monthly town board meetings.

The dissent in the Forsyth County case claims that the county did not violate the establishment clause because it invited local leaders of each religious congregation to deliver a prayer on a first-come-first-served basis.

In the summer of 1995 – back when it took at least an hour to download a decent nude photo from the internet, let alone a video – senator James Exon of Nebraska took to the floor of the US Senate to deliver a prayer over the "virtual but virtueless reality" of internet pornography.

On Monday, he plans to deliver a prayer for peace in Quneitra, a city in the Golan Heights captured by Israel in the 1967 war and destroyed before it was returned in 1974, and which Syria has preserved as a museum of Israeli brutality.

The Rev. Billy Graham delivered a prayer at the service the day after the second inauguration of President Bush.

Before you pitch the idea at a public hearing, hoping to win a special-use permit, a Catholic priest delivers a prayer, a tradition in Greece since 1999.

He prayed silently, lighted a single candle and delivered a prayer into a microphone, referring to ground zero as "a scene of incredible violence and pain".

He was replaced on the floor by the Senate chaplain, who, noting that the chamber had "reverberated with a marathon of speaking," delivered a prayer asking God to help the members "to clearly discern right from wrong".

Prior to 1995, the Santa Fe High School student who occupied the school's elective office of student council chaplain delivered a prayer over the public address system before each varsity football game...

An article on Monday about the visit of Pope John Paul II to Syria referred imprecisely to the destruction in the Golan Heights city of Quneitra, where he has since delivered a prayer for peace.