Sample Sentences forobservance (auto-selected)
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Fremen mark the observance according to the ninth meridian-crossing cycle of the first moon.† (source)
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In Kilanga these are matters of religious observance, they are baptism and communion.† (source)
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And, Frau Blumenthal, the truth is that my family was never much for strict observance of the laws and customs anyway.† (source)
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At Mark Keppel High School there was an annual observance: the battle between the Mexicans and Anglos.† (source)
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Their only interest is in a new one-way international law, which lacks mutuality in its observance and therefore becomes an instrument of oppression.† (source)
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Nor would it have been impracticable, in the observance of majestic ceremonies, to combine mirthful recreation with solemnity, and give, as it were, a grotesque and brilliant embroidery to the great robe of state, which a nation, at such festivals, puts on.† (source)
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They waited for her to rejoice in kind, on cue, with due observance of the protocols.† (source)
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What was of worth was not me, but the veneer of constraints and observances that obscured me.† (source)
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The stamp of publicity had of course been fully given by her confinement and departure, and the change itself was now ushered in by our nonobservance of the regular custom of the schoolroom.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonobservance means not and reverses the meaning of observance. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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This was an observance the authorities considered mandatory.† (source)
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Religious observances shouldn't be denied to anyone.† (source)
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The historians tell us with naive assurance that its causes were the wrongs inflicted on the Duke of Oldenburg, the nonobservance of the Continental System, the ambition of Napoleon, the firmness of Alexander, the mistakes of the diplomatists, and so on.† (source)
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The Good Friday observance means that its citizens are temporarily done celebrating the war's end.† (source)
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Having resolved to do it without loss of time, as his leave of absence extended only to the following Saturday, and having no feelings of diffidence to make it distressing to himself even at the moment, he set about it in a very orderly manner, with all the observances, which he supposed a regular part of the business.† (source)
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The people of the west moved eastwards to slay their fellow men, and by the law of coincidence thousands of minute causes fitted in and co-ordinated to produce that movement and war: reproaches for the nonobservance of the Continental System, the Duke of Oldenburg's wrongs, the movement of troops into Prussia—undertaken (as it seemed to Napoleon) only for the purpose of securing an armed peace, the French Emperor's love and habit of war coinciding with his people's inclinations, allurement by the grandeur of the preparations, and the expenditure on those preparations and the need of obtaining advantages to compensate for that expenditure, the intoxicating honors he received in Dresden, the d† (source)
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The only reason he postponed your arrest was to run this observance in hopes you did something that made his case stronger.† (source)
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