Sentence examples for observances across from inspiring English sources

The continuing deaths in Iraq added a heavy feel to Memorial Day observances across the country, from sun-blessed Ventura, a coastal town 60 miles northwest of Los Angeles, to the rain-sodden East Coast.

The Earth Day observances across the United States today are akin to the lamentations of those primitive people, and of other stricken human communities down through the ages, for a ravaged land that has become unfruitful and for a society that has shriveled because it failed to remain in harmony with the nature that gave it birth and sustenance.

Shirley Dobson, wife of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and the chairwoman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, said the total of 40,000 observances across the U.S. for the National Day of Prayer "belies the fact of many skeptics saying that citizens in our nation no longer believe in prayer".

The Liebermans, who were married in 1983, may seem to have a 1950's style of life, preferring quiet dinners at home to the buzz of the political social scene, but their family is a decidedly modern American one, extended exponentially by divorce and re-marriage even as it has remained rooted in traditional Jewish observance across four generations.

It is part of an international endeavour to promote Sabbath observance across the world, inspired by the South African Chief Rabbi Warren Goldsmith's Shabbos Project.

The celebration didn't take hold, so its observance across the nation was spotty until Abraham Lincoln, at the urging of Sarah Josepha Hale, revived the custom and fixed the fourth Thursday of November as the annual date.

Mr. Michel, a Manhattan resident who has told his story of survival all over the world as an official of UJA-Federation of New York, will recount it again on Sunday as the featured speaker at a Holocaust Memorial Day event in Clifton, N.J., one of thousands of observances scheduled across the country.

While observance varies across the country, for many, taking care of one's ancestors in death is a key cultural tradition and show of filial piety.

Other observances were held across the Southland on Monday night.

More homespun and craft-oriented than the festivities in "Christmas Across America," the small-town observances reflect the diverse histories and tradition of towns like Nantucket, Mass.; Beckley, W. Va.; Demopolis, Ala.' Nevada City, Calif . and Santa Claus, Ind.

ANNIVERSARY OF TERROR -- Observances of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were held across the country.