Sentences with phrase «on observance»

Even where native title has been extinguished in a part of the claim area, this should not preclude negotiations regarding that land if the interest that extinguished the native title has ceased (and the land has reverted to Crown title) and the native title claimants maintain a connection with that land based on the observance of traditional law and custom.

It was held that the safety of a conviction does not depend merely on the strength of the evidence that has been heard, but also on the observance of due process.

Most of the time, this revolves around reporting bad or illegal behavior or insisting on observance of your rights such as religious observance of holy days or avoidance of unions.

Also, tonyb, I agreed to the Christmas truce conditioned on its observance by «the team», as well.

A UN Commission on Transnational Corporations devoted about 15 years of study and negotiation on a draft Code of Conduct for Transnational Corporations that included a general provision requiring transnational corporations to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms in the countries where they operate and more detailed provisions on observance of laws on labor relations and involvement of trade unions.

The pervasive influence of commerce on the observance of Mother's Day outside the churches is obvious, but even inside the churches the influence was not inconsequential.

In some cases, your veterinarian may be able to tell you definitively that it is time to euthanize your pet, but in other cases, you may ultimately need to make the decision based on your observances of your pet's behavior and attitude.

Not exact matches

And Ray Cox of Northfield, Minn., maintains two professional blogs, one tracking contracting work done by his Northfield Construction Co, the other reporting on his work and observances as a Minnesota state representative.

That dream carried on at Joint Base Lewis - McChord's Martin Luther King Jr. observance at the Carey Theater Jan. 11.

The military's chaplin program supports people of all faiths and if you happen to have a work day during your day of observance or sabbath, most commands will let you take the time off to worship depending on if the enemy is firing at you or if your unit is short staffed.

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

The Programme of Action is comprehensive and seeks to build and strengthen «adequate national structures which have a direct impact on the overall observance of human rights and the maintenance of the rule of law.

Robert Burns has a telling picture of such a nightly experience in his poem about the Scots peasant on Saturday, preparing for the observance of the next day as the time for worship and rest: The Cotter's Saturday Night.

While the emphasis on the external observances and rites of Islam is palpably decreasing, Western culture seems to have had little effect on the cult of saints.

The observance of the millennium has brought an apparent calm on the surface of the water, but according to several sources, it has really done little to ensure any regularity in the unpredictable currents beneath.

Faith of our Fathers is a spirited defense of Catholic ritual, discipline, and communal observance» of the ways in which the collective wisdom of Christian tradition is passed on from one generation to another.

(Cf. I Samuel 14:33 - 35) There was no order of hereditary priests, and the sacrifices, long after the settlement in Canaan, were apparently few in kind and simple in observance principally the peace - offering, where the fat and blood were given to Yahweh and the people feasted on the flesh, and the burnt - offering, where the whole animal was burned upon the altar.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

The Christian story and observance had to do with a real person, who had been personally known and was remembered by people still living when the story was being told and put on record.

The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance in the United States held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation.

It sounds like they're basically putting a sign on the front door that says only Christians allowed in TAPPS if they won't consider another religion's observances.

More important the bylaws at the time forbid playing games on Sunday in observance of Christian sabboth.

Only late in the article does it touch on the real issue» not «public observance» and not «spontaneous expression» but religious displays, songs, and presumably prayers that are supported or sponsored by local governments.

Normal adult samples can be distinguished from mentally and emotionally sick adult samples better than 99 out of 100 times on the basis of the degree of religious observance in the childhood home... the degree of religious observance in the childhood home plays an important role in the maintenance of mental health.

Nor, on the other hand, are we given a code of precise rules of observance, adapted, so far as possible, to cover all contingencies (which was the aim of Jewish Rabbinical teaching).

Its appeal is complex, drawing on belief in anthropogenic global warming and trust in the «scientific consensus» behind it; the Great Recession and a protective reaction to rapid social change; a basic need for the concrete, local, and personal; the waning of religious observance; peer pressure, star power, money, and more.

In that sense the observance of the monastery of Cluny in the 12th century sounds suspiciously like a spiritual version of life on a modern assembly line.

SUNYAB closed early on Fridays in observance of Rosh Hashanah and / or Yom Kippur, but observed no other religious holidays I can recall.

In the pursuit of his mission he found himself obliged not merely to neglect some of the finer points of current religious practice (such as fasting on the proper days) but also to break some of the rules which were thought necessary to safeguard the religion of the Law (such as those of Sabbath observance).

The observance of religious holidays should be allowed for and recognized, but not on a «wholesale» basis.

In 1950 the committee ruled that driving on the Sabbath to synagogue was permissible, as was the use of electricity to enhance Sabbath observance.

I think observance should depend on the percentage of students who would likely be absent on a given holiday.

Organizers and local officials said 1.5 million people came out for the Way of the Cross observance on Friday.

Interesting exchanges on sexuality (letters, November 2007), are not helped by concentrating so much on sexual tendencies and outward observances, so much deplored by the Lord who simply urges us to clean up our minds and hearts (Mt 5.8).

Bousset has pointed out the gradual transformation of Judaism, during the period between the Old and New Testaments, from a national cultus to a religion of individual piety — a religion of observance rather than of theology, on the one hand, or of deep personal feeling, on the other.

In his inexorable march toward the center of Christian observance, Santa is intent on pushing baby Jesus off the nativity scene.

Observance of the Sabbath can pose a challenge for observant Jews living in a culture on a different timetable.

In 1955, modern soil conservationists from all backgrounds then piggy - backed on the Christian observance, leading to the bulletin that my great grandmother Annie found worth saving two years later.

Nevertheless, Soil and Water Conservation Week or Stewardship Week continues, now tethered to the original Roman calendar observance on April 25th — known to liturgical Christians still in the know as the Major Rogation — rather than the more variable Minor Rogations, the three days before Ascension Thursday, highlighted in 1957.

But since you Christians can not get a clue on your own, we will have to pummel with acorns until you get a dictionary and discover that «religion» is» (1): the service and worship of God or the supernatural (2): commitment or devotion to religious faith or observance.»

It doesn't matter why it was done but if we want to have authentic Christianity, we need to focus on the «Jewish Jesus» and actively avoid the pagan observances.

He drew from this memory a lesson for contemporary Christians, namely to invest in their Sunday observance some of the spirit of the Jewish Sabbath (in whose observance, by the way, Jesus was so scrupulous during his life on earth).

If they hold a Seder in their homes on the first night of the Passover, or take their families to a synagogue on the Day of Atonement, it is only because they feel that it won't do the children any harm, and may even do them a mite of good, to be exposed to a sentimental observance of old folk customs that are part of their heritage.

On the day of his observance, why is CNN helping the gay movement to try and co-opt the mantle of civil - rights?

Following Bellah's lead, most commentators on the topic have focused on the foundation documents of the republic, presidential inaugural addresses, the ritual and ceremonial involved in the observance of regular national holidays, and occasional events such as the funeral of a president.

When the missionaries insisted on the renunciation of caste observances many students, and all but one of the teachers left the school.

Perhaps the most familiar form that the movement takes on the local level is the interdenominational observance of the World Day of Prayer on the first Friday in Lent by the women of many thousands of communities, not only of this country but in 144 countries of the world.

A NDP Task Force press release begins: «Americans to Unite and Pray on Thursday, May 3rd, for the 61st Annual Observance of the National Day of Prayer.»

Bishop Gore ended his book, The Sermon on the Mount, by saying: «Many will come to him in that day with a record of their orthodoxy and of their observances, of their brilliant successes in his professed service; but he will protest unto them, «I never knew you.»

It is extremely necessary to point out that the crazies that made this outrageous comparison and those that spit on 8 - year - old girls are not ultra-orthodox Jews, but lunatics that do not understand what it means to be a Jew adherent to the Torah laws pertaining observance and social conduct.