Sentences with phrase «own national holiday»

Started in the early 1970s by a group of stoners, 4/20 has become the defacto national holiday for marijuana users across the U.S. Consumers of cannabis celebrate the day by attending parades, eating a ton of junk food and, of course, smoking some of the stuff.

Greek Independence Day is a national holiday in Greece that celebrates the beginning of the War of Greek Independence in 1821.

Swiss stock markets were closed due to a national holiday.

China began a three - day national holiday on Thursday.

Christian Estrosi, regional government head in the greater Nice area, said policing was lighter than Prime Minister Manuel Valls claimed, and that concrete blocks were not deployed to seal roads off during the national holiday festivities of July 14.

Markets were closed on Monday, and will be closed on Thursday and Friday for national holidays.

Because of the national holiday in America celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King and his efforts to address inequality, I have recently found myself reflecting on my own childhood.

The move is part of Kraft Heinz's campaign to have the day declared a national holiday (it's already pushing a petition on the topic).

The accident came as France is preparing to celebrate its most important national holiday, Bastille Day, on Sunday, and as masses of vacationers are heading out of Paris and other big cities to see family or on summer vacation.

The first week in July means the first week in July, even though it contains a national holiday.

At least 84 people, including at least 10 children, were killed in the southern French city of Nice when a man drove a truck into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday on Thursday night, according to the French interior ministry.

Also, when you offer promotions outside of regular holidays, you won't compete with other retailers since they only discount during national holidays,» he tells Under30CEO.

So yes, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy this brief relief rally driven by the fact that China is offline for the week and that the persistent source of overnight selling on Chinese «hard / crash landing» concerns has been gone simply due to an extended national holiday.

Maryland Democrat Alec Ross celebrated April 20, the informal national holiday for marijuana aficionados, by releasing a video featuring as many weed puns as he could muster in 30 - seconds.

The markets in mainland China and Hong Kong were closed for a national holiday, but in Singapore, the Straits Times index edged up about 0.4 percent and the key indexes in Taiwan and South Korea closed up 0.1 percent.

Tax Day in the USA is almost like a national holiday for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

* In instances where no liquidity can be sourced in the market, these trading hours may be further reduced on a day - to - day basis ** Special dates and times for FX Metals apply on U.S. national holidays to reflect the trading hours of the underlying futures market Please note, FX spot, forward and option prices stop streaming from 1 minute before the end of the trading day (17:00 Eastern Standard time) and remain non-tradeable (grey pricing) for 5 minutes.

Volume was generally light due to many traders taking the national holiday off.

Market liquidity could be a bit low today due to national holidays in Japan, Canada, and the United States.

For the first time on this national holiday, Ebenezer church visitors will be enjoying the newly renovated landmark.

There were seven national holidays instituted by God (Leviticus 23), and two that were a result of historical events and instituted by men.

February 11 is also Victory Day in Iran: a national holiday commemorating the Iranian Revolution, which culminated on this day 32 years ago in 1979.

In this collection of essays he addresses questions as various as marriage and divorce, immigration policy, and the importance of national holidays.

Christians have plenty of access to broadcasting (TV, radio, Internet, news outlets); there is no shortage of houses of worship; Christmas is a national holiday.

Kyle Siler, who started the petition, gave several reasons why Billy Graham deserved a national holiday.

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org asking for a national holiday in the United States to remember Rev Billy Graham.

It isn't possible to allow a national holiday for every religious holiday.

We've even given them their own national holiday.

There are Jewish holidays that are taken off as well, alongside obviously our other national holidays.

Also, if you are protesting for Muslim holidays to be declared national holidays, what about all of the other religions (Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc)?

Get rid of holidays that endorse any specific religion as they have no place as national holidays.

The real issue is, If anyone proposed taking off no holidays except for National Holidays i am sure our Jewish Mayor would have and extreme issue with that....

Either no religious holidays should be national holidays or all religious holidays should be National holidays.

They are free to worship, they celebrate their religious holidays and those holidays are national holidays that are acknowledged and respected by the entire population.

People in Ameirca fight against even national holidays: most businesses do not get days off for President's Day, Veteran's Day, or Martin Luther King's birthday, and these holidays pertain to all of America.

Marshall Frady and others are right: If everything was known then that is known now, Dr. King would early have been brought to public ruin, and there would almost certainly be no national holiday in his honor.

I don't see any other religion that has their own national holiday.

Maybe it is because Christmas is an official national holiday.

That's not the type of question most people will consider on this Monday as the nation celebrates King's national holiday.

Christmas is a national holiday.

In the midst of this debate, there is at least one victory Benedict can already look to: the Cuban authorities have granted his request to have Good Friday declared a national holiday (just as Christmas was finally permitted after Blessed John Paul II's 1998 visit).

Right and if we didn't have those days off, we'd have other national holidays.

On January 20, America officially celebrated for the first time the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., as a national holiday.

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.

The first King national holiday was celebrated with little enthusiasm for the ideas that were central to the civil rights leader's thought and action.

Celebrate his death, dang make is a freaking national holiday!

Even better, why have national holidays or days of remembrance because someone might be offended and we wouldn't want to offend anyone.

Besides a handful of national holidays, the typical American worker bee gets two or three precious weeks off out of a whole year to relax and see the world — much less than what people in many other countries receive.

Decades later, this «troublemaker» is a martyr and a hero, whose birthday is a national holiday.

Thanksgiving Day (Jour de l'Action de grâce in Canadian French) is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.