Sentence examples for religious towns from inspiring English sources

In religious towns, cultural norms made some recreation, like sports, taboo as well.

The protests first intensified in small religious towns all over the country, where the government used to take its support for granted.

In addition, some of the religious towns eventually grew to a considerable size, as in the case of Ise and Izumo.

One leaves Bnei Brak, a religious town in the greater Tel Aviv area, at 8 18 A.M., having arrived from Haifa.

Six cities have been selected, and regional partners in each city are being cultivated: Jamshedpur (Industrial Town), Erode (Market Town), Tirupati (Religious Town), Mhow (Cantonment Town), Agra (Heritage Town), Panjim (State Capital).

She is the fourth of five children of wealthy parents, brought up in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran.

"We are today closer than ever to Jerusalem," said Abdul Rahman al-Shamali, the muezzin who calls Muslims to prayer at one of five mosques in the conservative, religious town.

I spent my first 18 years in a rural, religious town in North Carolina, a state that recently passed a constitutional amendment barring same-sex unions by a wide margin.

As well as the fight at Umm Qasr, US troops talked of facing resistance at Basra, further north at Nassiriya and at the Shia religious town of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad.

But the country may one day find another alternative to the Alievs.I had been to the fervently religious town of Nardaran, and been shown around its grand, Iranian-funded mosque by a memorable old man wearing three-day stubble, bizarrely trendy dark glasses and an astrakhan hat.

The first overt violence supported by this broad coalition was the demolition of a 16th-century mosque in December in the northern religious town of Ayodhya that Hindus said had been constructed on the site that they revere as the birthplace of the god Ram.