In a modern, liberal society, religious observance does not "take away" choice.
Singing Out Though the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observance does not take place until next Monday, he was born 73 years ago tomorrow.
But unlike most shopping centers around the country, religious observance does affect this mall, where the shops, except for the restaurants, are closed on Sundays.
As we will see, Mill thinks that much moral reasoning should be governed by secondary precepts or principles about such things as fidelity, fair play, and honesty that make no direct reference to utility but whose general observance does promote utility.
Just doing the commandments, without endeavoring to understand them, will leave us fighting an endless, fruitless war against our stiff-necked evil inclinations because such observance does NOT change an individual.
Chase's Calendar of Events, a compendium of dates, celebrations and observances, does not list either National Dork Day or "Be a Dork Day".
You want to take time off for a religious observance that does not occur on your day off or on a paid holiday.
The elementary school, with 337 students -- only one is African-American -- is one of the few in the state that does not close in observance of Dr. King's birthday.
The city's Reform and Conservative populations continued to drop, as did Jewish religious observance over all.
When railways began to spread across England in the 1830s, they operated at the same frequency six days a week, but on the seventh inserted a gap called the "church interval" to placate concerns about the damage travel might do to religious observance.
