Sentences with phrase «over ceremony of»

19.00 Boris Johnson, the Princess Royal and Seb Coe attend the handing over ceremony of the Olympic flame in Greece

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In opening the ceremony, Trump praised the members of Congress who stood behind him, citing the «records all over the place» set by his administration.

The groundbreaking ceremony was presided over by Indonesia's President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo, who signed an inscription on a large stone in Walini, a West Java town and location of one of the railway's eight stations.

Before the games began, he voiced his concern over the decision of Vice President Mike Pence leading the Team USA Olympic delegation, turning down a meeting with Pence ahead of the opening ceremony.

A pair of pelicans crashed a graduation ceremony at Pepperdine University in the California beachfront community of Malibu over the weekend.

Spectators and athletes from all over the world watch the opening ceremony of the XIIIth Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid.STAFF AFP / Getty Images

What people are talking about today The 2018 Winter Olympics are officially over, after a closing ceremony that included K - pop sensations EXO, skating pandas and the reappearance of the famous shirtless, oiled - up Tongan flag - bearer.

Thai medical students say prayers over the coffins of hundreds of cadavers, in a solemn ceremony to bid farewell to the corpses who helped them...

Most often, the father would preside over the ceremony, but since Zacharias was unable to speak, probably one of the local priests filled in for him.

That said he's not technically wrong about the use of the Lulavs — we DO wave it about and while some are used to cover the succot (the huts as you termed them) if there are any left over (unlikely this year) their main purpose ARE to be waved about in a specific series of ritual ceremonies.

Pope Francis will preside over a special ceremony that is expected to draw upwards of a million pilgrims, who will gather in St. Peter's Square to witness Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII enter the celestial community of Catholic saints.

That concept is not easy to teach or warm one's hands over without considerable effort, but it is not impossible to convey even to young children the sense that the real meaning of Christmas lies precisely in the combination of magical ceremonies and the grown - up message that in the very midst of our human selfishness, the waylaying love of God has broken through to us unconditionally.

«Utterly disappointed and surprised,» Fernado Cabrera a New York City councilman and the pastor of New Life Outreach International church in the Bronx, said over the decision not to include any clergy in the ceremony.

As the great hour approaches, the dresses, the flowers, the guests, the gifts, the right tempo of the wedding march, how to get through the ceremony without stumbling over the words or dropping the ring seem a great deal more important than the blessing of God.

The conflict is over the university's Public Policy Institute's invitation to Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be its 2012 award ceremony speaker this weekend.

«That will involve them walking me into the cathedral and then doing a sort of Maori ceremony to hand me over, so the service itself will incorporate that element from the beginning which I think will probably be something quite unique for the people there.»

The Mende language group is a people group of about 5000 people and over 2300 people attended the dedication ceremony.

Many of the responses to the Marriage Pledge from both sides of the divide on same - sex marriage have reflected substantial confusion over the distinction between Christian and civil marriage and what the role of the clergy is in the marriage ceremony.

Fighting over his nature, the types of ceremonies that you need to perfrom, and the relevance of «holy» books and or doctrines merely define which sect of the cult you inhabit.

This recognition that the power of ritual is made manifest in material forms illuminates how the bodily practices that underlie the behaviors in the study — premarital sex and cohabitation, deliberation over relationship decisions, and the gathering of supporters and witnesses in the marriage ceremony — shape marital quality.

Jews believe in a Messiah, but don't believe it was Jesus (though the passover ceremony is all about Christ); Muslims go back to Abraham but since the prophet Mohammad don't have any recent connection to God; Catholics came from a combination of the Roman and Christian church after the death of Christ's apostles; Protestant's see misunderstandings in the Catholic church and have tried in various forms over the years to correct them without any true religious authority; Mormons believe God restored the truths of the original Christian church back on earth through modern prophets and revelation.

An hour before the ceremony began, one of the Muslims who guard the church entered the tomb to extinguish the 43 silver lamps hanging over the crypt.

’14 In popular Jewish thought Elijah came to be regarded as «the ever - present prophet, wandering incognito over the earth, sometimes in the garb of a nomad, to aid in moments of distress and danger, appearing to mystics and scholars to teach them hidden truths, and acting as celestial messenger».15 He was thought to be present at every ceremony of circumcision as the guardian spirit and witness, and on such occasions a special chair was reserved for him.

Closely associated with the myths were elaborate customs and ceremonies — his ritual — evolved over a long period of time.

«It has been widely supported for the past 10 years and rather than have disagreements over which religious leaders participate we would like to keep the focus of our commemoration ceremony on the family members of those who died.»

Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.

At 55, he has spent more than 20 years conducting ceremonies in sweat lodges, where water is poured over hot lava rocks as part of a purifying ritual.

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Plus: Methodist locale loses tax exemption over gay ceremony stand, bad grades for Oxford's Christian schools, Dobson nixes Thompson again, and hundreds of other stories from online sources around the world.

The mere ceremony over a bowl of hot water is not enough to pass for real food.

At one point they actually believe that grocery store bread and wine changes into the flesh and blood of Jesus because their priest performs some special ceremony over it.

This was done at the first of three serious initiation - type ceremonies, to be spread over the next two years.

While every five minutes the metro was bringing trade visitors from all over the world to the exhibition site and the halls were filling up, the official opening ceremony of the trade fair duo BioFach und Vivaness was being held in the early afternoon.

Following a ceremony at Gaugin's gravesite (complete with «Amazing Grace» on bagpipes) above the sleepy port town of Atuona and a headstone's throw from the final repose of Belgian singer / composer Jacques Brel, a large tahoua (traditional Polynesian gathering space) the celebration swelled to welcome over a thousand islanders, dignitaries, Gaugin relatives, assorted visitors and even a few locals.

There was some left over, as we had a LOT of food for the induction ceremony and kick - off.

Though not quite as much of a cultural institution as their Olympic counterparts, the World Cup's opening ceremonies have been quietly expanding in size, importance and grandiosity over the years.

During the ceremony, the university president, Charles A. Wight, called on various groups in the graduating class of over 5,000 students to rise.

He was also inspired by the Olympic torch being handed over to London's mayor, Boris Johnson, at the closing ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympics.

In addition to discussing NXT, Levesque also made light of the length of the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony, which clocked in at over four hours on Friday.

and takes you on a tour of all the many things there are to see and do over the weekend, from the various stalls and amusements to invading the track for the podium ceremony after the race.

During the ceremony, the WIC flag was handed over by Lamine Diack to the next host nation representative, Mohmmad Tarzi, Chairman of the Organising Committee of the 14th IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships to be staged in Turkey.

Ahead of the official renaming ceremony of the Kenny Dalglish Stand at Anfield, club statistician Ged Rea casts a numerical look back over the Scot's Liverpool love affair...

And although the June 23 ceremony marks the program's 34th graduation, it is the first for Gershenson, who sold her catering firm in 2001 and took over as the executive chef of Chicago Community Kitchens in May.

The Transition team has been in place for the past four weeks, and it has consisted of sub-committees that have been ironing out the planning of the inauguration ceremony, handing over the machinery of the Civil Service among other mandates.

While, Stephen Amoah, who is in the news over the purchase of some over-aged fiat cars, was seen in the welcoming ceremony of Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, when he touched down at the Kumasi International Airport from Brazil, John Kumah, according to The Herald findings, has all these while been inside his office in Accra.

At the short ceremony held in Kirikiri Prison, the vice-chancellor, who was represented by the Director of NOUN's Learner Support Services, Prof. Nebath Tanglang, expressed delight over Ajogbor's feat despite the fact that he is incarcerated.

Once appointed by the monarch (in the ceremony known anachronistically as the «kissing of the hands»), the Prime Minister has absolute discretion over who will be invited to become Ministers, what direction the Government and country will take and how the departments of government will be structured.

Both the Major and Blair governments promoted «active citizenship» and rolled out polices such as Citizenship Ceremonies for the naturalised and citizenship education in schools — with the civic republican philosopher Bernard Crick a significant influence over many of these reforms.

Speaking during the handing over ceremony on Thursday, the founder of Slum2School, Otto Orondaam, said the gesture was in line with the organisation's objective of -LSB-...]

The brief ceremony took place before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by the president.