religious convention
Example Sentences
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Then there are his gnomic utterances and the annual religious convention, the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, where Jobs regularly turns up to lay hands on his devotees.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2011
Ordinarily as liberal as any U. S. churchmen, the Unitarians voted down the resolution after many a delegate had argued that Labor was not a proper concern of a religious convention.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was returning from a long and dreary religious convention held in an eastern town, where one, Mr. Lyman Beecher, had stirred up against him the foremost divines of New York and Boston.
From The Mormon Prophet by Lily Dougall
QUARTERNIONS, a religious convention held every hundred years.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
He was one of the early artists to break through the old wall of religious convention, painting frankly mythological subjects, and he did them in an exquisite manner all his own.
From The Book of Art for Young People by Agnes Ethel Conway
