After Jesus returned to heaven, the book of Acts records the disciples of Jesus praying to God to grant that miracles be done in his name, for the purpose of convincing onlookers that he is alive.

After the beginning of the earnest agitation of the Northern abolitionists against the institution of slavery about 1831, petitions of various kinds poured into the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate praying for the abolition or the restriction of that institution.

After this scene, the duel commences, with both armies praying to Zeus and the rest of the gods on Olympus to open the action.

After praying, it came to Thomas More:

") After this he goes to the altar, praying silently " that with pure minds we may worthily enter into the holy of holies ", a reference to Exodus 26: 33-34, 1 Kings ( or 3 Kings ) 6: 16, 1 Kings ( or 3 Kings ) 8: 6, 2 Chronicles ( or 2 Paralipomenon ) 3: 8, Ezekiel 41: 4, and others.

After fasting 40 days and praying to God to bless his efforts, he heard a heavenly voice ( bat Ḳol ) asking, " Why do you go to so much trouble on behalf of this person?

After praying to God that He give Idris easily a means to earn his living, Idris rested one day, bored and without work, and began to draw figures idly in the sand.

After Major Kira tells Jadzia she has been praying for a conception, Jadzia receives encouraging test results from Julian, and goes to the station's temple to thank the Prophets.

After electing Magnus Decentius ( probably his brother ) to Caesar and gathering as many troops as possible, the armies of Magnentius and Constantius met in the Battle of Mursa Major in 351 ; Magnentius led his troops into battle, while Constantius spent the day of battle praying in a nearby church.

After Muslims were banned in 1975 from praying at the traditional site for Joseph's tomb, outside Shechem, it was gradually converted to exclusive Jewish use.

After painting the Sacred Mirrors, he applied this multidimensional perspective to such archetypal human experiences as praying, meditation, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth, nursing and dying.

After praying to Allah he moans a constant short Ah, Ah every few seconds for the rest of the night.

After praying for his intercession, a young girl was cured of cancer, a type that until then had never been cured.

After praying for guidance, he had the " clear impression " not to sign the franchise.

After the Lenape were told of the vote, they spent the night praying and singing hymns.

After he was beset by carnal thoughts, he reduced his diet to the juice of herbs and fewer figs and took to praying, singing, the hoeing of the soil and the production of baskets made from rushes.

After trying to seduce Marge, who is praying for him, Homer falls asleep suddenly and has a dream in which God personally appears to him.

After praying, he went home.

After seeing a man praying to God on his knees, he was convinced of his need for salvation.

After a brief orchestral passage, the Soul hears echoes from the friends he left behind on earth, still praying for him.

After he got a victim to the hospital, he was seen praying for her using a crucifix.

After praying to Tzeentch one night, Vilitch was fused to his brother, who became mindless.

After his departure, Wesley writes that " We immediately began praying for him, and then for all the despisers.

After singing an anthem and praying, the procession returns to the church for choral evensong.

After reciting the Islamic declaration of faith ( Laa ilaaha illa l-laah ) and verses from the Quran, one of the greatest of the Mughal Emperors died, aged 74.

After reciting the long poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter ", the Tweedles draw Alice's attention to the Red King — loudly snoring away under a nearby tree — and maliciously provoke her with idle philosophical banter that she exists only as an imaginary figure in the Red King's dreams ( thereby implying that she will cease to exist the instant he wakes up ).

After unsuccessfully trying to plead his innocence ( by reciting the lyrics of Bob Dylan's " It Ain't Me Babe " and insisting that he did no more than " cross an imaginary line with a bunch of plants "), George skips bail to take care of Barbara, who is suffering from, and eventually succumbs to, cancer.

After joining Donghak, Son entered into a period of profound training that included reading and reciting the Donghak " Incantation of Twenty-One Letters " thirty thousand times a day.

After the sketch, the terms would appear by themselves on the screen, while Favreau's voice could be heard reciting them.

After drinking a mixture of wine and blood of the animal or the candidate, the member will pass beneath an arch of swords while reciting the triad's oaths.

After the person reciting the kiddush drinks from the wine, the rest of it is passed around the table or poured out into small cups for the other participants.

After reciting, the new member had the Pioneer's scarlet tie tied by an older Pioneer, and thus, becoming a full-fledged member of the organization.

After Brothers John and Mac are taken away, Franklin decides he has to leave the school, but is persuaded to stay at the last minute by Delaney reciting a moving poem across the playground.

After performing the ablution, and evoking the intention to pray for the sake of God, the worshipper will stand quietly while reciting verses of the Quran.

After retiring from the government, he passed his time taking boat trips on the lake, playing the cithare and writing and reciting poetry.

After reciting the blessing, " Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to take the lulav " ( the " Shehecheyanu " blessing is also recited the first time each year that one waves the lulav and etrog ), the etrog is turned right side up ( or picked up ), and the user brings his or her two hands together so that the etrog touches the lulav bundle.

After the mediant, the second part of the psalm verse is sung on the reciting tone until the last few words, which are sung to a cadential formula called the termination.

After reciting the blessings, and eating a matzah " sandwich " combining charoset and maror, the remainder is often eaten plain, spread on matzah.

After this use of Dacian, Thracian and Scythian history, Jordanes returns to Gothic tradition by reciting the line of descent of the Gothic royal family from Gapt ( Gaut or Odin ).

After reciting this the priests would respond " So be it!

After reciting a romantic excerpt from Shakespeare to Sam, Josie has horrible flashbacks to where she read a romantic poem aloud in class to her high school crush, a popular boy named Billy Prince ( Denny Kirkwood ), who made fun of her for it.