For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.

For many Muslims, i ' thar must be practiced as a religious obligation during specific Islamic holidays.

For the reception of the sacraments, and for other religious offices, the abbot and his monks were commanded to attend the nearest church.

Adam also presents idolatry, human sacrifice as religious practice: For all their gods there are appointed priests to offer sacrifices for the people.

For example, a calendar provides a way to determine which days are religious or civil holidays, which days mark the beginning and end of business accounting periods, and which days have legal significance, such as the day taxes are due or a contract expires.

For the Aztecs, the most important tribute was the acquisition of sacrificial victims for their religious rituals.

" For many reasons, some historical and some religious, Judaism does not encourage its members to convert others and in fact would require the initiative from the person who would like to convert.

For example, what Jews from Eastern Europe and from North Africa consider " Jewish food " has more in common with the cuisines of non-Jewish Eastern Europeans and North Africans than with each other, although for religious Jews all food-preparation must conform to the same laws of Kashrut.

For example, ancient Hindu religious texts list clairvoyance amongst other forms of ' clear ' experiencing, as siddhis, or ' perfections ', skills that are yielded through appropriate meditation and personal discipline.

For those with no religious affiliation and those who chose not to list an affiliation, either the space for religion was left blank or the words " NO PREFERENCE " or " NO RELIGIOUS PREF " were included.

For this, the Inca offered the most esteemed religious chief of the empire, Villac-Umu.

For all their religious connotations, the emperors were not " gods " in the tradition of the Imperial cult — although they may have been hailed as such in Imperial panegyrics.

For deprogramming to work, the victim must be convinced that they joined a religious group against their will.

For example, in De libero arbitrio, opposing certain views of Martin Luther, Erasmus noted that religious disputants should be temperate in their language, " because in this way the truth, which is often lost amidst too much wrangling may be more surely perceived.

For example, some AM stations paused Sunday morning music programming for religious voicetracks by ministers.

For these reasons, he oversaw all state religious activity.

For example, German Rat ( pronounced with a long " a ") (= " council ") is cognate with English " read " and German and Dutch Rede (= " speech ", often religious in nature ) ( hence Æthelred the ' Unready ' would not heed the speech of his advisors, and the word ' unready ' is cognate with the Dutch word " onraad " meaning trouble, danger ), while English and Dutch " rat " for the rodent has its German cognate Ratte.

For these social and religious reasons, most legal jurisdictions limit gambling.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

For men, Islam, Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism and other religious groups have at various times recommended or required the covering of the head and sections of the hair of men, and some have dictates relating to the cutting of men's facial and head hair.

For the most part, Islam overlaid and mixed with existing cultural and religious influences.

For example, such internalization might take place following religious conversion.

# For iconoclasts, the only real religious image must be an exact likeness of the prototype – of the same substance – which they considered impossible, seeing wood and paint as empty of spirit and life.

For Stephen T. Engel, on the other hand, Rousseau's nationalism anticipated modern theories of " imagined communities " that transcend social and religious divisions within states.

For purposes of this explanation, this percentage is referred to as the State's `` unadjusted Federal share ''.

For purposes of sample selection only ( individual tests were given later ) we obtained group test scores of reading achievement and intelligence from school records of the entire third-grade population in each school system.

For expository purposes, this is best treated as a model which spells out the conditions under which an important industry affected with the public interest would find it profitable to raise wages even in the absence of union pressures for higher wages.

For the purposes of setting the product price, the industry behaves as a single entity.

For the purposes of this discussion, the problem of relative prices is encompassed in these two variables, since GNP includes other prices.

For our present purposes we assume that the sole subject of bargaining is the basic wage rate ( not including productivity improvement factors or cost-of-living adjustments ), and it is this basic wage rate which determines the level of costs.

'' For present purposes it may be assumed that this charge so narrowly limited speech as to violate the federal Constitution.

For all practical purposes, the West stands disunited, undedicated, and unprepared for the tasks of world leadership.

For their purposes, oxygen and other gases were not drawn from the surrounding atmosphere through the medium of lungs but sustained artificially by solution in their shells.

For the purposes of the treaty system, Antarctica is defined as all of the land and ice shelves south of 60 ° S latitude.

For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt – east of the Suez Canal – is often considered part of Africa.

For socket numbers, a few well-known numbers were reserved for special purposes specific to the AppleTalk protocol itself.

For example, letters 1, 5, and 8 contain a discussion on the question, whether the use of a piece of metal with the figure of a lion, as a talisman, is permitted by Jewish law for medicinal purposes, or is prohibited as idolatrous.

For administrative purposes the archipelago constitutes the comune of Favignana in the Province of Trapani.

For comparison purposes that is approximately the same size as Aylesbury, Carlisle, Guildford or Scunthorpe urban areas.

For commercial purposes, it is derived primarily from Gelidium amansii.

For statistical purposes, Baker is grouped with the United States Minor Outlying Islands.

For purposes of scoring and reference, each player is identified by one of the points of the compass and thus North and South play against East and West.

For calendric purposes, Bede made a new calculation of the age of the world since the creation, which he dated as 3952 BC.

For scoring purposes, a standing eight count is treated as a knockdown.

For all practical purposes that was the Baltic language until 1919.

For most purposes, most jurisdictions, including the U. S. federal system and most states, have merged the two courts.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

For international banks, including the 55 member central banks of the Bank for International Settlements, the threshold is 8 % ( see the Basel Capital Accords ) of risk-adjusted assets, whereby certain assets ( such as government bonds ) are considered to have lower risk and are either partially or fully excluded from total assets for the purposes of calculating capital adequacy.

For enumeration purposes the country is demarcated into 4, 042 enumeration areas.