Sentence examples for during the mourning from inspiring English sources

Foreign delegations will not be accepted during the mourning period.

Republican Party officials talked of challenging a Carnahan victory.Mr Ashcroft suspended his campaign during the mourning period for Carnahan.

I felt a little like someone who was out of the country when Princess Diana died, and returned during the mourning period to find a very different Britain.

If a person is responsible for the death of an individual, they do not attend during the three days of mourning; that is why if we kill an individual in sector, we are not welcome during the mourning period.

The Ganda people of south-central Uganda have a strict prohibition of sexual activity during the mourning period, while the Cubeo people of the northern Amazon include sexual activity as part of the wake.

He put his mattress on the floor and slept there, in line with a Jewish tradition of sitting close to the floor during the mourning period for a relative, Mr. Feuerstein said.

Volgograd was in mourning during the traditional New Year holiday - and the mourning period only ends on Friday.

The only time business is slow is during the Shiite mourning month of Muharram, Allan said.

The pair find common ground: Dani's impatience and sense of isolation at her homecoming party matches Tyler's feelings during the family mourning for his sister.

Also released is a sectarian militant, Waleed Akbar, the principle suspect in last year's attacks on Shia mourners in Dera Ismail Khan during the Shia mourning month of Moharram.

Mourning was so complete that the makers of ribbons and other fancy goods (which could not be worn during the period of mourning) petitioned the government to shorten the period, fearing they would otherwise go bankrupt.