Sentence examples for observances from inspiring English sources

More than 15 hours of observances are planned Friday, the invasion's 70th anniversary.

But he has also been provocative at home, seeking to allow religious observances in government offices and proposing that large mosques be built in places long associated with secularism.

Among "the normal and characteristic occupations" of a man of leisure he classed government, war, sport and devout observances.

In 1919 major campaigns were undertaken to discredit church observances by staging mock Christmas holidays and exposing the remains of saints.

Equally important were mourning ceremonies, a series of funerary observances and anniversary commemorations of the dead.

A high-ranking priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism, Shōga painted butsuga for the Tō and Jingō (or Takaosan) temples with which he was associated in Kyōto, as well as for individual court noblemen who used his paintings in their private religious observances.

Happiness levels have stayed relatively constant, which many think might be a product of religious observance remaining relatively steady.But one trend in the pattern of American social life is curious: Americans have never been less likely to be friends with their neighbours than before.

They look haredi in their beards and black hats, and they claim to be haredi in their observance and beliefs.

This clause, presumably intended to inspire a sense of urgency, is honoured more frequently in the breach than in the observance.

During the Eyptian turmoil of 2011-12, as Mr Snyder pointed out, a small caste of urban intellectuals demanded the observance of human rights; but they lacked the vast mobilising power of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In fact, the Poles had deftly avoided inviting any politicians in person; the Auschwitz museum simply alerted embassies that there would be an observance on January 27th, and asked who would attend.