Sentence examples for observance when from inspiring English sources

And for the record, it was never my intention for him to forgo our religious observance when he transferred schools.

In October, the association announced that effective this school year it would change its rules to accommodate religious days of observance when scheduling state competitions.

Historical precedent and other polling information offer clues that many voters are willing to make at least certain concessions when it comes to a candidate's religious observance when they pull the curtain behind them in the voting booth.

During the fall Golden Week, a holiday period around the Oct. 1 National Day observance when many Chinese consumers splurge on travel and luxury goods, sales grew at the slowest pace since 2000, according to data from China's Ministry of Commerce.

Ash Wednesday is a solemn observance when many Christians receive ashes on the foreheads and are reminded that "they are dust and to dust they shall return".

At last year's Memorial Day observance, when the final note of "Amazing Grace" was sounded on the bagpipe and people got up to leave, I approached Rep. Brad Sherman to tell him why I come to the service every year.

And earlier this season, the Spirit responded to the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando with emotional observances when the Orlando Pride visited, painting a rainbow ribbon (technically a violation of the Laws of the Game, but no referee would be a stickler on this occasion) on the field.

Hammer explained the 79-year delay in the ceremony by saying that his socialist father had dispensed with religious observances when he was a child.

The Bizan monastery undertook leadership of the northern monks, remaining faithful to the Judaic observances even when these fell into disfavour and resulted in persecution from emperors and ecclesiastical authorities.

But if you begin by distinguishing between the core religious stance of awe before the wonders of the world and the innumerable ways of striking that stance, the state can be seen as honoring the religious impulse — defined broadly and not tied narrowly to specific observances — even when it declines to honor one of its nonessential instantiations.

When observance of those particular values become absolute requirements then we are on a path of confrontation," he said.