Sentences with phrase «emphasis on ceremony»

So I chose the perfectly legal alternative of affiliating with the California National Guard, with its emphasis on ceremony, discipline, inspiration, and leadership training.

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For example, Catholics believe that a baby that isn't baptized with water goes to hell, thereby placing an inordinate emphasis on the religious ceremony as the source of the salvation, rather then on God.

the only way for us to ALL get through this ceremony in a way that satisfies most, is to allow for the greatest amount of PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY... thus the emphasis on those moments of silence, that's where YOU get to communicate with YOUR GOD, under your beliefs... and it allows those that don't believe, to simply remember, reflect, and pay their respect.

Perhaps in more fundamentalist congregations where so much emphasis is given to the written word and what the preacher makes of it, it make weaken his hold on the largely ignorant, but in the Catholic and Episcopaelian congregations, it is much more about pomp and ceremony — where the scriptural readings take on much more of a musical resonance than a study group — it will have little impact.

In an address at Bayern Munich's ribbon - cutting ceremony for their new, 70 - million - euro ($ 82.5 million) youth facility in northern Munich, Hoeness (pictured above) suggested the club's emphasis on youth development could be an answer to «transfer madness and wage explosion.»