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During the forty days leading up to Christmas, the Eastern Orthodox Church practices the Nativity Fast, while the majority of Christian congregations ( including the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, many Mainline churches, and Baptists ) begin observing the liturgical season of Advent four Sundays before Christmas — both are seen as times of spiritual cleansing, recollection and renewal to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus.
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During the supernatural chaos towards the end of the film, LaGuardia is said to have come back to talk to the current mayor of New York in his bedroom for an hour and a half, despite LaGuardia's being " dead for forty years ".
) according the Talmud Tractate ( Yoma 39a ), " Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple ( that is to say around 30ad ) the lot the Lord ’ did not come up in the right ... hand ; nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white ; nor did the westernmost light shine "
During 1998 and 1999, forty BBC local radio stations recorded personal oral histories from a broad cross-section of the population for the series The Century Speaks.
During this period many of the themes which will be developed in the liturgical texts of the forty days are introduced.
During the past forty years, a number of books have been written about Northern Dancer, with the latest two editions coming out in 2006.
** During the 2005 season the tribes were initially divided up by age into " Old " and " Young ", with the old contestants being forty and older and the young contestants being under the age of thirty.
During the last three decades almost forty houses have been built in Elbing, so only a few of its original lots remain unoccupied.
During this time, the Phoenix family continued to move on a regular basis and moved over forty times by the time Phoenix was 18.
During his forty year presidency, the university vastly expanded its facilities, with laboratories, libraries, classrooms, and athletic facilities replacing simple colonial structures.
During this period Beerbohm Tree took some forty academy graduates into his company at His Majesty's.
During a group appearance by the cast on television's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Leno ran a brief clip from Garner and Eastwood's lengthy saloon fistfight during Eastwood's Maverick appearance in " Duel at Sundown " over forty years earlier ; Tommy Lee Jones and Eastwood also stage a brief bar brawl in Space Cowboys.
During the following forty years, five nearby cities ( Lucerne in 1332, Zürich in 1351, Glarus and Zug in 1352 and Bern in 1353 ) joined the Pact and began the Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy.
During the 1960s, Balanchine created and revised nearly forty ballets including in 1965 a rare foray into the genre of evening-length story ballets, Don Quixote in which he played the title role.
During World War II, Operation Narcissus was a raid by forty members of the Special Air Service on a lighthouse on the southeast coast of Sicily.
During the previous forty years, he had played those difficulties with courage, skill and deception, to the point that MacDonnell claims were largely accepted and the clan's fortunes secured.
During his forty years of involvement in the church, Walther held several positions, including that of president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis ( founded at Perry County, Missouri in 1838 ), President of Concordia Theological Seminary, now of Fort Wayne, Indiana ( 1861 ), and founder of the St. Louis Lutheran Bible Society ( 1853 ).
During the first forty days, Strawberry Tree was used more than 10. 000 times.
During a 1915 debate with Rutherford and other anti-suffragists before the Georgia legislative committee, the chairman allowed each of the anti-suffragists to speak for forty five minutes, but demanded Felton stop speaking after the alloted half hour.
During the invasion of the Huns under Attila, the city was again besieged and sacked in 452 while, some forty years later, it was one of the first conquests of the Gothic general Theoderic the Great in his war against Odoacer.
During forty years of public life he served four kings ( Jungjong, Injong, Myeongjong and Seonjo ).
During the nearly forty years covered in this story, the population of the country more than triples.
During Vercingetorix ’ s revolt ( 52 BC ) the Nervii were only asked to supply 5, 000 men to the forces raised by a confederation of over forty tribes.
During the first forty years of the rock era, no song had ever debuted at number one ; since a 1995 change in methodology, nineteen songs have.
During Alexandre's acting presidency, Amnesty International reported " excessive use of force by police officers ", extrajudicial executions, a lack of investigations into these, escalation of " unlawful killings and kidnappings by illegal armed groups ", failure of officials to prevent and punish violence against women, dysfunctionality of the justice system, and forty or more people imprisoned without charge or trial.
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During these first days of the trial I didn't have as much time to commiserate with Viola as I should have liked.
During the latter days of November to the day of Brown's execution, it seems that most Rhode Islanders did not concur in `` E. B.'s '' suggestion.
During the first few days of wearing the appliance and immediately following each adjustment, Susan may have a slight discomfort or soreness, but after a short time this will disappear.
During these skirmishes Zurlauben fell mortally wounded, and died two days later.
During his highschool days in Galatasaray High School ( and later in Şişli Terakki High School ) he formed his first band, Kafadarlar (" The Buddies "), allegedly upon seeing Erkin Koray's band performing, all students of Deutsche Schule Istanbul ( İstanbul Alman Lisesi ), a nearby highschool.
During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 or 20 kilometres upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the river where the Basel Münster now stands.
During this month there is precipitation for an average of 10. 9 days.
During the days of the Cold War in the United Kingdom, labour union leaders and other leftists were sometimes derisively described as " Bolshies ".
During winter training, the pilots fly two practice sessions per day, six days a week, in order to fly the 120 training missions needed to perform the demonstration safely.
During the winter, storms blowing from the Sahara sometimes form dense dust clouds that obscure the sun ; however, sunny days are the norm year round.
During the religion's early days of rapid growth, the teachings were frequently attacked from the pulpit and press.
During competition season it often becomes seven days with practice twice a day sometimes.
During his Army days, Janssen became friends with fellow enlistees Martin Milner and Clint Eastwood while posted at Ft. Ord, California.
During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.
During these days in which the offices of sadaijin and udaijin were vacant, the major counselors ( the dainagon ) and the emperor assumed responsibilities and powers which would have been otherwise delegated.
During the first few days of the spill, heavy sheens of oil covered large areas of the surface of Prince William Sound.
During the summers, she would frequent the prime minister's house so she could lounge about on his veranda during the hot Delhi days.
During the school year, the pregnant woman and senior citizens need to manage to find a place because these buses are always full, especially on market days.
During Hindu marriage ceremonies the following slokas are uttered by the grooms but, these days, their import little understood or ever attempted to understand.
During his naval days, Bogart's character and values developed independent of family influence, and he began to rebel somewhat against their values.
During the early days of pregnancy, the conceptus is mobile, moving about in the uterus until about day 16 when " fixation " occurs.
During the early days of computers and programming, the hackers at MIT would develop a program and share it with other computer users.
During his days in Atlanta, Aaron reached a number of milestones ; he was only the eighth player ever to hit 500 career home runs, with his 500th coming against Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants on July 14, 1968 — exactly one year after former teammate Eddie Mathews had hit his 500th.
During the four days of its exhibition, an estimated 60, 000 people visited the site.
During its early days, Id Software produced much more varied games ; these include the early 3D first person shooter experiments that led to Wolfenstein 3D and Doom — Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3D.
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