Sentence examples for much observance from inspiring English sources

Herbert Lehman, Henry Morgenthau and Felix Frankfurter arose from a subculture of Jews who had shed much observance and ritual, who had embraced English liturgy as part of becoming American.

Such individual responsibility marks much of Jewish observance, so that the synagogue far from being the focus of observance shares with the home and the workaday world the opportunities for divine-human encounter.

In addition, the Lubavitchers' ultra-Orthodox practices are much stricter than the observance of most Mumbai Jews.

But the majority of the performance involved in the project has happened over the last few months for the benefit of no one, really, except Mr. Sachs and his crew, as if the exhibition is only a kind of public observance of much more extensive rites for a new secular religion.

In Bab al-Salam, as in much of Syria, religious observance has become increasingly rigorous.

The Discourses express Symeon's strong conviction that the life of a Christian must be much more than mere observance of rules, and must include personal experience of the presence of the living Christ.

His celebration of eastern cultures in his ballets reflected a personal commitment - his spiritual observances owed much to Sufi traditions and he made an annual retreat to a Buddhist monastery in Greece.

Following Viking expeditions to the islands they called the Suðreyjar in the eighth century, Raasay became part of the Norse Kingdom of the Isles and for much of the period religious observance came under the jurisdiction of the Bishopric of the Isles.

On the one hand, the USA is a deeply religious nation, certainly by European standards, with much higher rates of religious observance, in which politicians infuse their electoral themes with overt professions of belief in God.

No one can be precise about how much time is spent for religious observance in Bali.

But this is a distinction that in practice is honored as much in the breach as in observance.