Sentence examples for during the prayers from inspiring English sources

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They kept quiet during the prayers.

Mr. Khan said Mr. Al-hadlak had otherwise not said or done anything abnormal during the prayers on the evening of Sept. 9.

Why, just last week I attended a synagogue service, where I wore a little crocheted tea cozy on my head and, during the prayers, I tried to sound like I was continually clearing my throat.

I describe this behavior as unkind, but in the same way that in India it is not considered bad manners to answer a telephone in a movie theatre, he may have felt it was O.K. to answer the phone during the prayers.

At the ceremony, he behaved in ways that I thought were unkind — answering his cell phone during the prayers that he was leading and asking in a passive-aggressive way if there was nobody who would say any last words for my brother.

With delight, Mr. Segal tells how one morning a station volunteer entered the studio during the prayers and, startled, asked, "Medical or spiritual?" "Aside from the question of, 'How do you make a living?' the question I get most often is, 'When do you daven?' " or pray in yiddish, he said.

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I was not there during the prayer or the pledge".

At the Neve Dekalim synagogue, a man keeps his mouth shut during the prayer for the state of Israel and is berated by his neighbour: "Sing!

Ms. Nathan stood by the mayor's side with tears in her eyes during the prayer service at Yankee Stadium last Sunday.

"You could see that she feels this city's pain a lot," said a police official who stood near the mayor during the prayer service.

In Forest City, N.C., a radio station is allowing a pastor to say a prayer at the beginning of high school football broadcasts, and is urging fans at the game to turn up their radios during the prayer.

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