Sentence examples for preceding sunday from inspiring English sources

For the fourth year in a row the tournament finished on a Monday, even though weather was fine the preceding Sunday, when it was originally scheduled to end.

In the past eight years, only two teams — the Miami Dolphins in 2003 and the Broncos in 2006 — have had a Thursday game after playing their previous game on the preceding Sunday night.

Initiated by the Roman pope Gregory I the Great in the late 6th century ad, it was so named because the bread and wine used in the Eucharist (Holy Communion) were consecrated on the preceding Sunday.

Among English-speaking Lutherans, the churches that use the Lutheran Liturgy (1948) keep October 31 as Reformation Day; those using the Service Book and Hymnal (1958) observe October 31 as Reformation Day and may keep the preceding Sunday as Reformation Sunday.

To use a more traditional version, Russell's (1996) example (see also earlier Russell and Wykstra 1988 and later Russell 2004), consider the proposition that the world was created about six thousand years ago at nightfall of the evening preceding Sunday, October 23rd (yes, that's the actual attribution of Bishop Usher) with the appearance of much greater age.

Following a blue carpet event on the preceding Sunday, the 1,400 journalists in attendance have been desperately vying for the artists' time.

On the preceding Wednesday, Frank Bruni had returned.

Independence Day is a national holiday; the preceding day, Remembrance Day, commemorates Israel's war dead.

The Justice Department had announced on the preceding Friday that it would not appeal the decision.

I'd been in the numbed audience the preceding Tuesday, the first night of the engagement.

Each preceding day had ended early thanks to rain or cloud.