Sentence examples for official observance from inspiring English sources

These culminate in the official observance of his birthday on Monday (five days after his actual birth date).

The official observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day on the Jewish calendar begins at sundown Wednesday, while yellow memorial candles will be lighted throughout the state.

Dallas's Central Centennial Exposition (1936), the state's official observance of the Texas revolution centennial, was a boon to the city's Depression-era economy, and one of the country's first shopping centres opened in 1931 in the suburb of Highland Park.

The official observance of this day began here a hundred years ago and was the first state to proclaim a columbus day holiday.

The "X" had been seen as tasteless by many while the official observance - a small plaque on the plaza's noted "grassy knoll" - had been criticized as inadequate.

In response to Burgoyne's surrender, Congress declared December 18 , 1777as a national day "for solemn Thanksgiving and praise" in recognition of the military success at Saratoga; it was the nation's first official observance of a holiday with that name.

Another round of official observances is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.

These were among the first of the official observances to remember the many fallen firefighters, police officers and emergency workers who died responding to the attack.

In that spirit, Naveen Sangji, sister of Sheri Sangji, the technician who last year died of injuries from lab fire at the University of California (UC), Los Angeles, made the issue of lab safety part of the official observances in April that marked Workers Memorial Day in Washington, D.C. Annual commemorations of job-related deaths have taken place for years, across the nation and abroad.

For though, as her sister demanded, she conformed outwardly to official Catholic observance, she inevitably became the focus and the obvious beneficiary of plots to overthrow the government and restore Protestantism.

Black Consciousness Day is an official annual observance.