11.   Dresdner executives were unavailable for comment because German financial markets were closed for the Corpus Christi religious holiday.

12.   During his presidency, Madison rejected requests to make official religious proclamations or to declare religious holidays.

13.   During religious holidays such as Christmas, attendance swells.

14.   Disturbances could be expected because of attempts to amend the blasphemy laws, or because of sectarian violence surrounding religious holidays.

15.   Few people worship at the mosques, and religious holidays are not officially observed in the nation.

16.   Everyone celebrates Muslim, Jewish and Christian religious holidays.

17.   For me, Thanksgiving is a religious holiday as well as a national one.

18.   For several crucial days right before the election, Joe Lieberman will be sidelined from the campaign trail by religious holidays.

19.   German financial markets were closed for the Corpus Christi religious holiday.

20.   Fresh from divinity school, new pastors say the challenge is to say something compelling and novel about a religious holiday that has been celebrated for centuries.