Sentence examples for fasting of from inspiring English sources

Compared to the rapid induction of hypoleptinemia with fasting of early lactation cows, the fasting-induced hypoleptinemia was delayed in non-lactating cows and postpubertal heifers.

In November came Martinmas, followed by the fasting of advent, and then it was back to Christmas once again.

Fasting, of course, has been a spiritual undertaking and sociopolitical tool for centuries, and the lineup of famous fasters is vast and varied: Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, Dick Gregory and, of course, Jesus of Nazareth.

The word for breakfast has been around since the 15th century and derives from the enforced fasting of sleep, broken by the first meal of the day - to break your fast.

Shrove Tuesday was originally the last day of enjoying fatty foods before the ritual fasting of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday.

The principal dish was fish, and the Metropolitan explained to me that in his Syrian Jacobite Church three days in February were appointed as a special Lent, to commemorate the fasting of the Ninevites when Jonah had preached to them and caused them to repent.

serve, his fastest of the afternoon.

"He's obviously very fast and he was the fastest of the fast today".

The Iceman will be ferociously fast, of course.

That made it the fastest of the match.

Even a fast of merely three days had foiled me.