Sentence examples for observances with from inspiring English sources

For its annual Bach Sommerfest over the weekend, a mix of religious observances with musical discussions and workshops, Holy Trinity invited Georg Christoph Biller, the current cantor of the Thomaskirche, to conduct its fine professional choir and orchestra in two Bach cantatas and a motet during services on Saturday and Sunday.

Congress declared the first federal holidays in the 1870s -- a handful of observances with Independence Day among them, according to a 2014 Congressional Research Service report.

First, Ayatollah Montazeri had unique standing in the Islamic Republic's history; it is not surprising that the coincidence of his seven-day observance with the Ashura observation would have drawn crowds.

They founded a Sufi organization advocating melding Islamic observance with women's rights and modernity.

To associate this "observance" with terrorism and political violence is unfair.

This identification of observance with ethics has deep historical roots, even if it makes the rest of the story far less fascinating.

The Major Rogation procession (April 25), a penitential observance with the object of obtaining God's blessing on crops that have been planted, seems to have been adopted from one of the festivals in the pagan calendar of Rome.

While some colleges were formally combining the King Birthday observance with discussions of Mr. Obama's ascent to office, the University of Hartford was hosting a traditional program of music and reflection about Dr. King.

The next morning, I quickly learned the truth about Ramadan — that it is indeed a serious religious observance, with Muslims purifying themselves through self-restraint, good deeds and prayer (they are encouraged to read the entire Koran during the month), but that it is also their faith's most festive holiday, one in which family and friends stay up late feasting and socializing.

The aim of the study was to examine the association of religious education and observance with dementia among participants in the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease study.

If at the same time a zero preservation property is assumed desirable, the method must be slightly redeveloped to provide its observance, with a concomitant reducing the dimensionalities of underlying minimization problem without its reformulation (see Sect. 8).