Sentence examples for observance rather than from inspiring English sources

The UN's International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is an observance rather than a public holiday.

The dark underbelly of professionalism is that it can breed a compliance mentality, mindless observance of rules rather than heartfelt fulfillment of the spirit of a profession.

After Mr. Obama was elected, the Human Relations Commission in West Orange, N.J., decided to hold its observance in the evening, rather than during school hours.

She stressed the individual's intuition as a means of reaching God and salvation, rather than the observance of institutionalized beliefs and the precepts of ministers.

In 1973, immigration minister Al Grassby complained that "the poor observance of Australia Day insulted rather than exulted the nation", so much so that he threatened to cancel it.

Teatro alla Scala raised eyebrows in December when it opened its season with "Lohengrin" in observance of Wagner's bicentennial rather than an opera by Verdi, who was also born in 1813.

MILAN — Teatro alla Scala raised eyebrows in December when it opened its season with "Lohengrin" in observance of Wagner's bicentennial rather than an opera by Verdi, who was also born in 1813.

Mozambican society has traditionally revolved around the family and the village, with customs and observances that grow from local rather than national influences.

It must not be honored in the breach rather than in the observance.

Rather than rigid ritual observance, they tend to support the notion that religion should lead one to live a better more moral life.

Saudi authorities put the blame for the stampede on a rush of unruly pilgrims who insisted on moving at noon, when the stoning ritual begins, rather than spreading their observances over the afternoon.