11.   But if they created a government barred from sponsoring religious rites, why do so many Americans still seem to favor and accept a public display of faith?

12.   Competing for converts, many Protestant sects roundly denounced traditional African religious rites as the work of the devil.

13.   Even the bloodiest mobster is deserving of religious rites if he confesses his sins before his death, Guarracino said.

14.   For Yoshiko Nishimura, the long journey to this pastoral island was less a pleasure trip than a pilgrimage, an almost religious rite.

15.   He would never have prayed in a campaign speech, or conceded he might be tied up with religious rites on weekends.

16.   Mochi arrived in Japan from Southeast Asia, along with rice cultivation, and has long been an essential offering at religious rites.

17.   Social workers say Americans also beat their children, send them to bed hungry or cleanse them in religious rites that are frightening and sometimes dangerous.

18.   Some people have this procedure performed as a religious rite.

19.   Television newscasts Saturday were a incongruous tapestry of majestic religious rites and grim war footage.

20.   The Ainu people have been conducting religious rites at the site.