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Samuel had to be dressed properly for his religious activities so Hannah brought him a fine robe every year.

Only 30 percent of men worldwide have had the procedure, mostly in countries where it is common for religious or health reasons.

Under this, politics, economy and the diplomacy of the USA are covered with sacred religious coat frequently, with a strong religious color.

But a peaceful religious accommodation of evolutionary ideas is possible, Hameed insists.

This is a very natural way for atheists to react to religious claims: to ask for evidence, and reject these claims in the absence of it.

From the absoluteness of the "me" a great deal of religious consolation can be spun.

So that's a way of not entirely alienating the gay voters while is also trying to hold on to the religious one.

So it seems to me that cattle were quite important in religious ideology.

If elected, he said, he will ask the assembly to enforce the law on religious activities.

bishops as a threat to religious liberty, which it had indeed proven to be for long periods of British history.

His parents already doubted Angel's religious belief, so they were almost relieved to hear this of his future wife.

He is a Nobel Prize Laureate, as you know, and an internationally recognised religious and cultural leader.

Philosophers were unknown yet and the fundamental stake was one of religious toleration slightly confused with defeatism .

Those of her colleagues who detected in her something odd and reprehensible would not have dared to call it "religious" .

If anyone thinks himself to be religious and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this one's religion is vain.

I remember, too, that Lou Salome referred to Nietzsche as a religious thinker with an anti-religion perspective.

The last two years of his life were those of a dying man. He wrote more poems, and a religious tone, albeit Laurentian , dominates many.

"I take deepest offense to and will continue to fight against discrimination against people of any religious group or background, " he said.

It would be easy to mock them, but the strength of Shaw's book lies in her ability to take Octavia seriously as a religious figure.

Mr Grant says his views on the death penalty have nothing to do with religion, but many who agree with him do so for religious reasons.

The Islamic religious authority, like the police, can also carry out raids among the Muslim community to identify wrongdoing against Islam.

Familiarity with religious or historic texts connected to any given site is important, he said, but their usefulness can vary.

He would have been a religious reformer, if he had not been too scornful of the vulgar to engage in propaganda.

This organization later hired Miz Lin to design its religious center. The building looks like an artist's version of a wooden boat.

Well, once I met someone who I thought I loved very deeply but. . . unfortunately she did not share my religious view.

A few days later, Hillary and I hosted our annual breakfast for religious leaders at the White House.

Has proposed to turn his eye in the sky to open, read, he is doing good religious man, agrees to his demands.

He said the protests represent a backlash to Beijing's efforts to stifle human rights and religious freedom in Tibetan areas of China.

I always say that religious faith is essential in life. Regardless of the religion, everyone needs to have some sort of religious belief.

It would be very irresponsible and extremely dangerous to circulate the so-called ethnic confrontation or religious conflict.

The message is often a famous quotation, religious principle or short poem.

Over the past three years, there have been a number of visits by leaders of religious political parties to Beijing.

Some time after his father's death, his mother decided to try and help him enter the religious life.

No member of a religious society can be tied with any other bonds but what proceed from the certain expectation of eternal life.

It's not my purpose or intention here to try to argue you out of your religious beliefs or to argue against your religious beliefs.

Leaders used religious rhetoric and ordinary soldiers and sailors said their prayers as they tried to make sense of what they were doing.

But Hobbes was one of the pioneers in the distinguishing religious questions from other sorts.

R&A: Certain religious Jews do not seem to have too many scruples, one might say . . .

Homosexuals have also made it a practice to dump on religious leaders.

Virginity is probably never going to be seen as cool, especially as it has been claimed as a "cause" by devoutly religious groups.

It was the main instrument for the formulation of religious ideas in the Near East, which then spread in all directions all over the world.

But you know you'd never know it a lot of the time, that this was so central to the religious life.

In the absence of contrary evidence, we have no reason to doubt Obama's candid account of his own religious journey.

The body of regulations prescribed by the founder of a religious order for governing the conduct of its members.

'Yes - moral enough; I don't deny that. But religious! - and for you, who intend to be a minister of the Gospel! '

I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.

Rabbi Dennis Shuman of the P'nai Or Jewish congregation said the planned event posed a dilemma to religious communities around the world.

The religious speak of morals, and yet isn't it ironic that they need guidelines on how to be a morally upright citizen from a book?

He made a strong pitch for America's own vision of religious freedom, and called for understanding of the historical suffering of Jews.

Jews do not celebrate Christmas or any other Christian festivals per se as these have no religious significance to their beliefs.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Beck drew a large conservative crowd to Washington recently for what he said was a non-political rally that had strong religious overtones.

An inclination, as if in response to a summons, to undertake a certain kind of work, especially a religious career; a calling.

She felt that if I were completely remiss in religious conformity it would cast doubt upon the staunchness of her faith.

A MOB attacked Alexander Aan even before an Indonesian court in June jailed him for two and a half years for "inciting religious hatred"

If he could only escape the shackles of his religious beliefs, he would be able to fully express the person he really is.

In 1694, he took religious orders in the Church of Ireland and then spent a year as a country parson.

These religious leaders are among the few people to have seen the president in five months, apart from his immediate family.

This attitude, however, appears to me to be religious, in the highest sense of the word.

The personal relationship between the humanist Erasmus and the religious reformer Martin Luther has never been clearly delineated.

Witnesses said the compound, which included a guesthouse and a religious seminary, or madrasa, was hit by two missiles, destroying it.

I had a discussion with my editor and I said: 'What if I made this [homicidal bigoted religious sect] a Norwegian organisation? '

Toronto is such a multicultural city that there are many religious holidays, to the point where there is almost one after another.

And, on the whole, the threat of religious extremism with which strong men used to justify repression has not materialised.

The shepherd, exempt entirely from feudal and religious oppression, was the freest of men in Montaillou.

It was the fact that the kingship had been struggling for the power with the religious authority in whole history of Pharaoh Egypt.

It appeared as if most of the states of Europe were lining up for a final settlement of their political- religious antagonisms .

The only unusual thing about this was that the religious component was revealed.

But it does indicate a mental process that religious ideas of a judgmental, omniscient god would be able to tap into.

I knew he was a devoutly religious man who was angry about what I had done, and he had carefully avoided saying that I should be impeached.

In its fervor and obsession, this attitude is similar to that of a perverse religious cult .

Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in His mind.

The book Tengo rewrites turns out to be a real account of the goings-on inside a religious cult.

He was not religious, and was no metaphysician; but he wanted and expected men to evolve until they became like gods.

She was a religious woman, with a tendency to be skeptical of people and events that she had not heard of.

It would have been easy to opt out of religious life while living in China, since being Jewish has always been only a part of who I am.

It is all there; the institutions, their pressures, the religious impositions and doctrines, their cruelty, their faiths.

He was not a religious man, but he maintained a stark sense of good and evil, castigating others, as well as himself, for transgressions.

Golden cowrie shells have been used as currency and religious symbols throughout the South Pacific.

like many religious idols , she was openly abused and ridiculed , in her case by the same press that stoked the public worship of her.

Only a handful of his 150m compatriots, aside from his family and a few religious leaders, ever saw him again.

Do you think he would be immune from religious persecution by reason of his personal relation with the Bishop?

To the philosophers on Mars Hill (the Areopagus) he said, "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. "

If elected, Patten said her first mission would be to call for a royal commission into child sex abuse in religious institutions.

None of this civil agenda endears him to the religious parties that are Mr Netanyahu's natural allies in the "national camp" .

She was a person of quite extraordinary cheery religious fervour -- in almost every sentence she referred to the Lord.

Domestic scholars are in broad agreement that Chaucer has been a humanist thinker and his works are thought to be anti-religious.

Reading this book I seem to read it, "Bible, " Benedict deep in the West of religious feeling and sincere faith, and I am really admirable.

Vegetarian food is often associated with religious beliefs; most of Buddhists are vegans .

This aspect is often associated with religious idealism lacking discipline.

Reading this book I seem to read it, "Bible, " Benedict deep in the West of religious feeling and sincere faith, and I am really admirable.

Vegetarian food is often associated with religious beliefs; most of Buddhists are vegans .

But he has withdrawn them from the online auction service because he said the move offended some religious people.

Her lawyer had been protesting her innocence, saying that she had no connection with radical, political or religious groups.

This aspect is often associated with religious idealism lacking discipline.

He said they include legalizing hundreds of religious meeting places and allowing for hundreds of new clergy members to be trained.

But I would not say that this was a religious conversion for me, not in that traditional manner of being born again or saved.

You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me such.

The origin of religious belief is something of a mystery, but in recent years scientists have started to make suggestions.

Correspondents say the case is one of a string of abuses by the religious police that have been exposed by the Saudi media.

Correspondents say the case is one of a string of abuses by the religious police that have been exposed by the Saudi media.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he did not expect to have to defend religious freedom on the floor of the U. S. Senate.

He rarely spent time on his own and was, in his own words, "anti-religious" when he started the project.

James was brought up in exile in Europe, was a Catholic. He hoped to rule without giving up his personal religious views.

It tends to assume the form of a pagan religious ceremony, adapting itself to the forms and the ritual of the local Church.

Americans have always been a religious people, and music has long been a part of their religious experience, as well.

The truth belongs to every one of you, and does not need to be wrapped in religious dogma.

Apart from a comforting religious faith it requires some trick of the mind to be able to derive pleasure and significance from the moment.

The religious-affairs agency explained that this was "an important move to institutionalise management of reincarnation" .

I have been trying to destroy your club with a conviction I can only call religious.

I have been trying to destroy your club with a conviction I can only call religious.

Many Hindus consider cow urine to have medicinal properties and it is often drunk in religious festivals.

Jesus was teaching that this was a private act of sacrificial worship that should not provide any room for religious pride.

Jingning County is now one of the focus of heritage buildings and is the county seat of Muslim places of religious activities.

While a lecturer at the Evangel Seminary, she was devoted to teaching and translating religious texts, winning acclaim for her work.

A commission spokesman said the incidents appeared to amount to discrimination on religious grounds.

The game is believed to have had religious overtones and, at least occasionally, to have involved human sacrifice.

And yet our inability to protect religious minorities is obvious to the thousands of Muslim victims of the Gujarat riots of 2002.

Aren't you tired and burned out on all that religious stuff, anyway?

He said he hoped to help his new bride to master Roman script while she taught him Islamic religious knowledge.

He said he hoped to help his new bride to master Roman script while she taught him Islamic religious knowledge.

He said he was a religious man - not belonging to any particular organization or belief - but he felt religious.

Rather it was the state's promotion of religious practices in the public school in and of itself that violated the First Amendment.

But i'm not at all religious at all, and of course i have no interest at it, either.

Indeed, the new pontiff was known to be sceptical of the value of that inter-religious dialogue dear to the heart of his predecessor.

Today it may be tempting to see medieval marriage in the light of certain lofty religious doctrines and the poetry of the troubadours.

This early ad was the work of William Caxton, England's first printer, who used it to advertise religious books from his own studio.

The pod was often represented in religious rituals, including marriage ceremonies, and was referred to as food of the gods.

But Martin Luther also proved that religious reforms did not by any means require the support of a spirit of liberalism.

Now, I said that if I were religious, I'd be very afraid of evolution.

Although she is often portrayed as a femme fatale, Cleopatra was deeply religious and studied to be a nun.

Let me say at the outset that this proposal is made with no single region, no single class, no single racial or religious group in mind.

A growing number of American adults (16 percent) do not belong to any particular religious group.

Early religious thought conceived God as a sort of superhuman person, doing things all over the place.

The main difference between the religious and the non-religious was that the devout felt guilty about it.

The main character is named Tartuffe because he is a religious hypocrite and like a truffle his true nature lies hidden below the surface.

If I may ask, when you yourself refused, many years ago, to continue as the head of a religious organization, had you thought all this out?

An account of Sargon's early childhood from his purported autobiography closely resembles that of what religious figure?

Opposition forces are often brutally suppressed, and there has been a systematic abandonment of ethnic and religious minorities.

And although he stood there openly as a preacher, as a religious man, she still felt afraid of him.

To test him and try to get him into trouble with legal experts, some religious leaders wanted to debate with him on this subject.

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross says it must be free of any religious or national connections.

The influence of foreign religious organisations seems to be growing along with rising government loans from Gulf states.

No doubt millions of Americans would be appalled to see religious leaders ritualistically blessing contraceptives.

Here, Davis argues, the state has no good reason to stop him from using the narcotic in his religious worship.

American scientists and businessmen note enviously that religious and moral considerations do not seem to inhibit Indian biotechnologists.

22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. "

Meanwhile an invitation arrived to a religious ceremony. It was to be held the next day at a remote village.

The religious services which were held in our family I would have nothing to do with, I had not accepted them for my own.

He said he was a religious man and had wandered through many schools of different so-called holy men.

In Christianity, the rest of the flower is sacred grass, and is often used to decorate in religious consciousness of the altar.

Previous research had suggested that this part of the brain (which regulates emotion) is an important centre of religious activity.

The alternatives to simply trying to consume more calories include tobacco, alcohol, weddings, funerals and religious festivals.

The next day, at the White House, I held a reception for Nelson Mandela with African-American religious leaders.

There's been a significant increase in religious diversity in U. S. workplaces over two or three decades. That's part of it.

Archaeologists believe the 37-acre central plaza formed by the mounds may have been used for religious and other public ceremonies.

If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

I was surprised Battier was still out there with a gimpy ankle. I'm not religious, but I'm praying he heals up for the next game.

But he said al-Qaida does not represent Islam, and America's commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.

Unfortunately the program, known as the Committee for Religious Dialogue, proved to be a complete disaster.

Although the origin of this holiday was purely religious, it has evolved into a highly secular celebration each year.

Give up trying to fit the mold of your race, astrological sign, job title, religious group, political party or other erroneous associations.

Beyond Barnes & Noble and Borders, the only other retailers nearby that sell new books, she said, are religious bookstores.

Therefore, viewed solely from the religious ceremonies to offer sacrifices to God or to ancestors, the Confucian idea of God in ancien. . .

Hundreds of people have been killed in religious clashes in the town since the beginning of this year.

In the Shiite branch of Islam, a high-ranking religious authority regarded by his followers as the most learned person of his age.

Brandeis was born in 1856, into a family of non-religious Jews a few years after they emigrated from Germany to the United States.

Yeah, exercising, stretching, everyday. That's the only thing that I really have to be religious about.

One reason may be the religious revival that the United States and much of the world have been undergoing since the 1970s.

Most pieces were commissioned portraits or religious iconography, and there was no need for explanation.

Some, but not all, religious groups label it a sin, but most also ask parents to love and support their gay children, the film notes.

Although it is a religious movement, new content makes it a specular life style of Lhasa inhabitants.

The only religion that could be credited was the religion of morality or perhaps the religion of intense religious experience.

Religious huckstering wasn't the only reason the temple needed to be cleansed. Another reason had to do with God's mission to the world.

Trying to juggle different religious demands, James was displeased at their increasing strength.

"There is sacred trust given to religious leadership not to be touched by government agencies, " he said.

(To be fair, Mr Reagan himself was not exactly religious about his own injunction. ) It was Mr Perry, in fact, who started the dust-up.

Thus, the original social nature of human life with the contradiction between the primitive religious concepts and the basis of worship.

I had not expected to find so much evidence of China's thriving quasi-underground religious culture here.

He tells the story as an illustration of the sort of religious violence that has become all too common in Indonesia.

This here is a religious country, and I'm willing to bet the good folks down in panama don't take too kind to rapists and pedophiles.

They say apathy should not be interpreted as a desire to donate organs. Some patients oppose donation for religious and moral reasons.

Religious ideas are common to all cultures: like language and music, they seem to be part of what it is to be human.

As one of the general social issues in contemporary world, national-religious issues are gradually standing out.

movements inspired largely by religious sentiments, sprang up in both Britain and the United States.

You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the Lord, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come.

The ancient Olympics were a strange mix of a religious pilgrimage and a forum for intense athletic competition.

But they have never managed to cling to these scientific credentials, or to tone down the religious ones.

Although EVEN THOUGH I believe in the existence of God, but why DON'T I PRACTICE ANY RELIGION? do not be a religious follower?

You know I don't celebrate the whole baby-Jesus thing, so we can put the religious part of it off the table.

One of my jobs as a teacher of bright, mostly Catholic undergraduates is to get them thinking about why they hold their religious beliefs.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

When Davis's employer discovered that he used the drug as part of his religious worship, Davis was fired from his job.

And in recent years, religious leaders seem to have ramped up their efforts at straying from literal Bible teachings.

The author suggests that the argument should lead religious persons to be very careful in accepting miraculous claims.

Unlike India, it has no insurgents, no ethnic and religious conflicts nor hostile neighbours.

Now, this is an elite audience, and I would therefore expect about 10 percent of you to be religious.

The Byzantine era extended from the 13th century and went into the 16th century and was characterized by art with religious influence.

The French used the church for religious purposes for a little over a decade and then converted it to a warehouse.

the paintings and sculptures of amanda , considered masterpieces of buddhist religious art , have had a considerable artistic influence.

There are paintings of him, like religious icons, in all the buildings.

Jesus frequently put himself in opposition to the Jewish religious hierachy of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

On the company's fiscal fourth quarter earnings call last month, Mr. Cook said, "I'm not religious about holding cash or not holding it. "

Religious-right activists are trying to convert this latent sympathy into political support.

The spiritual leader said he was active in spreading Indias [ Images ] message of non-violence and religious harmony throughout the world.

And this referred to stop eating the meat. Despite its religious origin, Carnival has developed a secular meaning.

Religious faith and devotion have been used as excuses or pretexts for gaining power and land throughout history.

I asked one father what he had done about his kids' religious education and he said, "Nothing whatsoever. "

The United States is a multi-religion country with a strong religious atmosphere.

The move was an attempt to codify social and religious practices, but international condemnation forced the government to review the law.

Nurses enjoy life more than bankers, and it helps to be religious, sexually active and a college graduate with a short commute to work.

The reason is that the Creator is not tied to any religious organization and simply stands for all that is the Truth.

The problem, says Hameed, is that it is often taught in a highly religious context.

It was a very religious era, and everyone dreamt of a Garden of Eden. The plants and spices were proof that such paradise existed.

The translators initially learned the language for religious reasons, but have since made a career out of it.

I think I was fortunate because I grew up in a family where there was a very deep religious feeling.

From time immemorial, the Chinese have been the least religious of any of history's major civilizations.

Some patients may even hold religious beliefs that psychiatrists are evil emissaries of Satan, complicating the clinician's task, he said.

But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not countenance tolerance of opposing religious views.

Objectively, in terms of the moral education for college students, religious belief has positive significance as well as negative influence.

Others view this religious contribution to politics as long overdue and welcome the moral clarity the President espouses .

"A lot of religious leaders have come out and supported the government [position] that it is not wrong to open shops on Fridays, " he said.

Terror seems to be the weapon of choice by ethnic and religious zealots these days.

And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

Religious freedom is guaranteed everywhere throughout the United States, so far as congressional interference is concerned.

But the notion that we were connected to other animals, was one that was deeply upsetting to a lot of religious people.

Nothing against religious reenactments, but when a blood-smeared Jesus sings into his head-mike from the cross, things start to get creepy.

The religious right has always been able to rally its troops through church pulpits and mailing lists.

In all the religious and spiritual traditions of humanity personal atonement is possible, in fact, a prerequisite for spiritual growth.

of her character asserted itself; her better feelings were aroused, triumphing momentarily over the bigotry of her religious opinions.

It is no less powerful for you than it is for any one of a religious persuasion.

The early literature that emerged from such a God-centred world was heavily, in subject and style, by religious considerations.

Some of the chimps even appear to dance themselves into a trance-like state, as some humans do during religious and cultural rituals.

Keep your religious beliefs to yourself unless you are sure that the person you are trying to comfort shares them.

Mr. Ma's spokesman said the visit will be "humanitarian and religious" in nature and should not affect cross-Strait ties.

Religious culture was in a more deep thinking chastity at a time when religious belief wide spreading among women.

Will the Shi'ite resolve hold? Short of the destruction of another major religious site, it's hard to see them taking al-Qaeda's bait.

We fans like to describe our passion in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play are secular cathedrals.

She wants to take gymnastics, art, dance, and cooking, and she goes to afternoon religious school twice a week. I'm not pushing her.

His Lutheran proclivities had been strengthened by years of church-going and the religious observances of home life.

If you were a religious professional , could you serve as chaplain to a prisoner, especially one on death row?

Election Day brought a huge turnout, and I decided to vote in southern Tehran in the very religious neighborhood of Shah Abdul Azim.

Asfor the measures of guiding the farmers'religious beliefs still stay on the surface and the research needs to be strengthened.

Now, some religious leaders in the developing world are worried that the progress they have made with the bank may stall.

Above the religious complex is a site for "sky burial, " a term meaning disposal of a corpse by allowing it to be devoured by birds.

Cabalist studies in the Hebrew scriptures developed in a theosophical mystique and sometimes in a sort of unintended religious magic.

Rai said he is in the early stages of organizing a Middle East religious leaders summit.

We are fully justified to say that the Dalai Lama is not merely a religious figure but a political exile.

We have got to make it clear in Scotland in the 21st century that religious epithets and slurs are equally unacceptable.

Indeed, it would be a long time before Europe's Christians rediscovered such a spirit of religious tolerance.