Sentence examples for new festivities from inspiring English sources

Many Muslim theologians could not accept the new festivities, branding them bidʿahs, innovations possibly leading into sin.

He hopes that talks will resume after the new year festivities.

More information at knoydart-foundation.com Libya A walking holiday is one way of keeping the new year festivities in perspective.

DURING last month's lunar new year festivities in Beijing, thousands flocked to "automobile temple fairs", a variant of a centuries-old tradition.

The city's Sanhedrin did try to compete half-heartedly with Edinburgh in the new year festivities for a while, but what was the point?

Trade elsewhere was thinned by holidays in Japan, Thailand, South Korea and the Philippines, while many markets in Europe were either shut or finishing early for new year festivities.

Migrant children, though classified as "agricultural", usually have no more than one brief exposure to rural life every year when they are taken to their parents' home towns for the lunar new year festivities.

In recent weeks there has been a growing call for people to show their displeasure with Chinese rule in Tibet by boycotting Tibetan new year festivities, known as Losar.

This man who never tired of denouncing the desire of Quebecers to exist in French could nonetheless have kicked off the New York festivities with a blast and could perhaps even have finally apologized, with his timid half-smile, for having described his French-speaking compatriots as raving fanatics.

In Jakarta, the capital, residents began new year festivities with a prayer for the victims.

In Scotland, where new year festivities are known as Hogmanay, crowds thronging the streets of Edinburgh were dazzled by a more traditional firework display over the ramparts of Edinburgh castle.