Sentence examples for through observance from inspiring English sources
Grace through observance, kosher-style?
During these years, support had been growing for a new approach to tragedy that aimed at "regularity" through observance of what were called the "classical" unities.
But don't you go telling any of them I said that.' In Catholic circles, this is known as grace through observance - the conviction that, if you go through the motions long enough, you'll eventually develop faith.
Though the Apostle notes with pride the unique religious heritage of the Jewish people (the Covenant, the Law, the patriarchs, and Christ himself), he declares that righteousness no longer comes through observance of the Mosaic Law, not even for Jews, because God now manifests his righteousness through Christ, whose righteousness is the source of righteousness for all mankind.
Festivals attempt to invoke these qualities through observance and spiritual practice (sadhana).
Children learn first and primarily through observance; if you tell your children to treat everyone with respect then yell at a cashier for taking too long to scan your groceries, your children will remember what you do rather than what you say.
The Senate had acquired more effective control through the observance of certain unwritten rules regulating the relation between Senate and magistrates, to whom it formally gave advice.
The French dramatists, he felt, through their observance of the unities of time and place, wrote plays characterized by a dearth of plot and narrowness of imagination.
In modern Japan an alternative name for the Shintō priest is kannushi, which traditionally referred only to a head priest who, through the observance of purificatory practices, had become qualified to serve as a medium for a deity.
In a disenchanted world of production and consumption, he argues, some of us look to re-enchant our dreary selves through religious observance or spiritual exercises to become more than mere homo economicus.
Across the country, thousands of people of faith are coming together right now to advocate for children in need through National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® celebrations.
