Sentence examples for on a nativity from inspiring English sources

A French court's ban on a nativity scene in a town hall in order to preserve France's secular traditions has triggered a fierce backlash.

Perhaps it'll make a nice stand-in on a nativity scene – the Three Wise Men could temporarily become the Two Wise Men and That Eyeless Bell-End Doing the Annoying Thing With His Face.

Anyway, back to MDC: our drummer Aidan, who's in Godspeed You! Black Emperor now, was working on a nativity scene made completely out of snot.

In 1969, the American Civil Liberties Union (representing three clergymen, an atheist, and a leader of the American Ethical Society), tried to block the construction of a nativity scene on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.

Despite Curtis having recently revealed an abandoned screenplay for a nativity take on the format set in Bethlehem, there are currently no plans for a revival.

Among the examples from an inspection of Nansen Primary School is that school governors insisted on vetting a nativity play script and banned the use of a doll as baby Jesus.

I certainly prefer this kind of dialogue to the annual cultural wars in the West as to whether it is okay to say 'Merry Christmas' in public or whether we can set up a nativity on public land.

At Christmastime, the borough's five churches join forces in creating a nativity scene on the grounds of the Calvary Baptist Church on West Broad Street, on the site of the borough's original Baptist Meeting House.

Judge Raymond J. Pettine, a federal judge in Rhode Island whose rulings in several prominent cases included ordering an overhaul of the Rhode Island prison system and banning a Nativity scene on public property, died on Nov. 17 in Dallas.

In 1989 the Supreme Court held that a Nativity scene on public property violated the first amendment but a Christmas tree and menorah did not.

The court once ruled that a nativity scene on city property appeared to have a "secular purpose" because it included a reindeer and Santa Claus.But divining purpose is not easy.