Sentence examples for observances which from inspiring English sources

So was a revival of interest in ancient customs and religious observances, which Virgil could appropriately indulge.

A "Happy Holidays" greeting separates the commercial aspects of holiday celebrations from the religious or cultural observances, which should properly occur at home, in places of worship or in ethnic community centers.

The miniature lingam, the centre and basis of all their religious practices and observances, which they always bear on their body, is held to be God himself concretely represented.

Finally, in ad 132, the misrule of Tinnius Rufus, the Roman governor of Judaea, combined with the emperor Hadrian's intention to found a Roman colony on the site of Jerusalem and his restrictions on Jewish religious freedom and observances (which included a ban on the practice of male circumcision), roused the last remnants of Palestinian Jewry to revolt.

Hebrew was the language of religious observance, which becomes more important as time passes in the sewers.

His 40-day observance — which will fall on Jan . 29— and the early February commemoration of the 1979 revolution might also encourage public activism.

As director of the Royal Commonwealth Society since July 1997 he has helped to set up Commonwealth Day Observance, which takes place on Monday March 8.

He warned against a time in which religion would be characterized by excessive emphasis on detail, greater and greater inflexibility, and a commitment to petty observance, which was the surest way to a divided society.

As Yale's chief rabbi since 1981, Rabbi Ponet has led a very public journey, from strict observance — which counseled against intermarriages — to a more open liberalism that can permit them.

When "Observance," which will be included in the North Miami exhibit, was first shown at the Anthony d'Offay gallery in London, Mr. Viola was surprised to see viewers breaking down in tears.

After the conclusion of World War II, the British government, seeking to honour participants in both World Wars, officially replaced Armistice Day with the new Sunday observance, which was thereafter known as Remembrance Sunday.