The radish artists take over the city square all day, producing extraordinarily intricate religious and secular scenes in time for the competition that evening.
"We're in an era when government is extraordinarily deferential to religious organizations," said Marci A. Hamilton, a professor of constitutional law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, who challenged the federal religious protection act before the Supreme Court.
But I object to the view of Marci Hamilton, a law professor, who is quoted as saying, "We're in an era when government is extraordinarily deferential to religious organizations".
Bell argues that the insurgency was fuelled by the extraordinarily tenacious hold of religious culture.
As Mr. King observes, the Bible's accounts were extraordinarily dramatic: a charismatic religious leader and his band of disciples gather for dinner "in the middle of an occupied city whose authorities are plotting against them, waiting for their moment to strike.
That's exactly where my conservative, evangelical faith left me in college, when it collided with the extraordinarily complex and vibrant religious fabric of New York City: stranded on dry land.
Centuries ago, serious religious study was extraordinarily demanding and rigorous; in contrast, anyone could declare himself a scientist and go in the business of, say, alchemy.
The bishops add: It is to acknowledge that religious commitment is extraordinarily widespread and that people of faith within all the historic traditions have much to offer to a vision of a good society and a peaceful world.
Tibetans have experienced the best aspects of the Tibetan system of religious monarchy: it is extraordinarily effective in producing national unity and moral focus when it has a gifted, charismatic and forward-thinking leader.
