Sentence examples for secular functions from inspiring English sources
He is equally at ease at secular functions.
The conductus gradually disappeared with the rise of the motet, which apparently served both liturgical and secular functions.
The temples were centres of sacred learning of the content and methods of incantation, prognostication, exorcism, and political and economic administration, and their attendant priests were divided into classes with special sacerdotal and secular functions.
Fulfilling purely secular functions are bowls for kola nuts, offered in welcoming a guest; ayo boards for the game, known also as wari, played with seeds or pebbles in two rows of cuplike depressions; and stools, spoons, combs, and heddle pulleys.
In particular, we extend the concept and the properties of root-neighborhoods from polynomials to secular functions, provide perturbation results of the roots, obtain an effective stop condition for the EA iteration and guaranteed a posteriori error bounds.
Defenders of the cross argued that although religious services had been held at the site, the cross had evolved to serve a more secular function as a memorial to the nation's war veterans, with some 2,400 plaques in tribute to them, arranged in six concentric rings at the base.
However, in Deshastha families, the name that the child inevitably uses in secular functioning is the one decided by his parents.
In order to account for this rapid change in incidence, our model required an additional secular function for the model output to reproduce SEER cancer incidence.
Using different secular trend functions, the model was fit to the calibration targets over the 28 year span using a three phase calibration procedure described below.
Back then Sarajevo was projecting an image of what the European Union wanted its members to become: prosperous, diverse and secular with functioning industries, social equality, enviable social mobility and consistent growth.
Assuming that secular NGOs function on humanitarian values, I doubt if there is anything in [our] report that any NGO with a well formed conscience would not have written.
