Sentence examples for vigil over the from inspiring English sources

What stood out for us were two of the three categories in Keeping Vigil over the Profession: Political Vigilance and Tending the Flock.

The stout concrete structure still keeps a quiet vigil over the channel.

They may practice sexual continence or keep vigil over the body of the deceased.

That night, as relatives gathered in a middle-school auditorium in Prescott to hear the news, a group of firefighters stood vigil over the bodies.

Back at the morgue, another man kept a tearful vigil over the body of a friend, Assem Gamel, who was from an upscale neighborhood, had three children and worked as an engineer.

Faustine told me that she had been inspired by the black Southern tradition of sitting vigil over the dead at home, "having those bodies back for one last time before they never see them again".

Catholic churches held prayer vigils over the weekend and a large crowd gathered across the street from the courthouse in Hanoi during the half-day trial.

Instead, they have spent years holding parallel vigils over the case, and after a ruling this week granting Mr. Skakel a new trial, are likely to be in each other's company for a long time coming.

So an election night party seemed as good a moment as any to ask Mr. Bloomberg, 58, if he really wants to spend his 60's standing midnight vigils over the hospital beds of wounded New York police officers.

Neighbours were shocked to discover that the three women, whose disappearances many had commemorated at local vigils over the years, had been held inside an ordinary looking home on an average street in what is seen as  a down-at-heel area of the mid-western city.

When an elephant dies, its family members engage in intense mourning and burial rituals, conducting weeklong vigils over the body, carefully covering it with earth and brush, revisiting the bones for years afterward, caressing the bones with their trunks, often taking turns rubbing their trunks along the teeth of a skull's lower jaw, the way living elephants do in greeting.