Sentence examples for secular arrangements from inspiring English sources

And yet Gilbert, who died in 2000, now lies beneath a Hebrew headstone in a Jewish cemetery in Willesden, north-west London because, as his son writes pointedly, "he had, intriguingly, omitted to make more secular arrangements".

The phrase "separation of church and state" does not quite capture the sense in which a genuinely secular arrangement keeps religious voices on a par with all other non-governmental voices in the public square, and all the non-governmental players in the public square separate from the government itself.

Mitchell's legacy is in no danger of slipping away, particularly since the brand of soul that he and Green pioneered lives on: Mitchell's elegant secular-gospel arrangements, punctuated by string and brass accents, provided a perfect foundation from which Green could go airborne.

His surviving work also includes excellent examples of secular music, including instrumental arrangements of jigs and hornpipes.

They are offering a power-sharing arrangement with secular forces, with the next cabinet, they envision, to be headed by an independent technocrat and a presidential advisory council.

Rather than give civilian legitimacy to a military government, the arrangement will taint Pakistan's largest secular party.Perhaps a proper election can still be salvaged from this mess.

Spain's secular state cannot finance religious buildings, though it has a special arrangement to subsidize the Catholic Church.

Over the last decade, million-selling artists like Kirk Franklin and Yolanda Adams have reached a young and often secular audience by combining gospel's spiritual message with up-to-the-minute arrangements.

Many pieces and arrangements tell stories of the reason for the season, some have secular iconography, most are hand crafted, and all of what I saw brought a smile to my face.

Some of its decisions have raised concerns — especially among the secular youth who inspired the uprising — that it has some kind of arrangement with the Muslim Brotherhood to share power and restore order to the street.

In each case he knew how to apply stylistic particularities, personalising the decoration according to the owner's taste, the predominant style of the arrangement or its place in the surroundings whether urban or natural, secular or religious.