observance of holidays

Protestant denominations also kept the strict observance of holidays and fasting periods.

The Torah specifies a single date on the Jewish calendar for observance of holidays.

Highlights of this tour of duty included numerous port visits and participation in local observances of holidays and festivals, as well as gunnery practice and exercises.

My family was unaffiliated, and I had no Jewish education beyond what I saw from observance of holidays in my home, my grandparents' home and homes of friends.

The 1999 platform called for "renewed attention" to "sacred obligations," of which it mentioned the observance of holidays and Shabbat, study of Torah and prayer, and the Hebrew language.

In these days when multiculturalism stirs heated debates over so many issues from textbooks to the observance of holidays, the Immigration History Research Center represents a low-key, academic approach to recognizing that the past has many faces.

On 2007, Congress passed Republic Act No. 9492 putting into law the "Holiday Economics" policy of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo: this puts the observance of holidays except New Years Day and Christmas to the Monday nearest it.

Corporate identity is promoted, strengthened and encouraged by activities such as teaching the ancestral language, practice of rituals and social customs, observance of holidays, etc., from the minority culture and discouraging marriage outside the particular group or moving to a geographic area where the minority group does not have a significant presence.