Sentence examples for year observances from inspiring English sources

As part of Jubilee year observances, both are working in an international movement to forgive third-world debt.

It's like having to go to school on Christmas". Fortunately, Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, falls Sept. 10 this year, when New York City schools will already be closed for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year observance.

Many 20-year observances are planned, and many of them involve the arts, a reflection of vibrant activity within Little Saigon.

On Thursday — the one-year observance of their deaths — thousands are set to protest again.

15. "Marching Toward Justice" Howard Law School began a year of observances in October.

This weekend is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, with observances beginning at sunset on Friday and lasting until sunset on Sunday.

The United States did not specify in Iceland whether adherence to the ABM treaty for 10 more years meant observance of the traditional interpretation or a shift to the looser one.

Celebrations have taken place informally for many years, but observance of a clergy appreciation day began in 1992 when Jerry Frear Jr., founder of Under His Wing Ministries in Williamsport, Pa., had the notion that if secretaries could have their own holiday, so could clergy members.

At the first preparatory meeting for that year-long observance, held today at UNICEF headquarters in New York, panellists explored new ways to highlight the importance of meeting Millennium Development Goal 7 – to cut in half the proportion of people without access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2015.

Many people mark the new year with religious observances, as, for example, on Rosh Hashana.

But through a Jewish girlfriend in Atlanta, she was exposed to a full year of Jewish observances and holidays.