1. Another eight markets, including France, Italy and Spain, were closed for a religious holiday. 2. Before then, he said, complaints from Arab workers generally were about employers who refused to give days off for religious holidays. 3. After the revolution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, trying to elevate the importance of religious holidays, discouraged observance of this pre-Islamic New Year festival. 4. All other markets were closed for the Whit Monday religious holiday. 5. All these things are a part of the Christmas season, but for the faithful this is above all a religious holiday. 6. Breyer said that he thought the court should respect the religious holidays of any member of the court. 7. But Christian and other religious holidays are less and less welcome in the schools, even as observance of Kwanzaa grows. 8. But he began introducing traditional Jewish practices of emphasizing religious holidays and studying the faith more intensely. 9. But the history of human warfare does not provide encouragement for those who argue that warriors should take a break on religious holidays. 10. Did his family never celebrate any religious holidays, any annual rites, any birthdays? |