| Smith and Henderson meditated and fasted for five days prior to the performance, which culminated in a Tantric ritual. |
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| The term fasting glycemia refers to your blood sugar level after you've fasted overnight or for at least 8 hours. |
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| The friars inhabited the cloister, sang the matins, fasted and prayed within the walls and lived their lives in Banada six centuries ago. |
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| Ten male Sprague-Dawley breeder rats, weighing between 450 and 550 g, were fasted overnight, except for free access to water. |
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| Domestic country breed pigs of both sexes, weighing 22 to 26 kg, were fasted overnight with free access to water. |
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| A set meal was given at lunch time after the supplement to subjects who had fasted overnight. |
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| Patients should be fasted, rehydrated with intravenous fluids, and given oxygen therapy and adequate analgesia. |
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| I know that you have fasted and been involved in direct action and civil disobedience. |
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| Muslims prayed, fasted, and performed charitable acts from Oct 15 to Nov 14 for Ramadan. |
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| And since last night, the bearded mentor had sequestered himself in his prayer closet, taking only water as he fasted. |
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| Therefore, cats are more likely to suffer from toxicity and should never be completely fasted. |
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| Three protesters fasted for three days and held a vigil outside the embassy. |
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| Both groups fasted for fourteen hours before taking part in the experiment. |
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| You believed and obeyed the word preached from the altar, and fasted and prayed diligently. |
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| A fasting glucose test involves analyzing a small sample of blood after you have fasted for several hours. |
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| The pledger and other participants fasted and danced for several days, praying for power. |
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| Opening the capsule and sprinkling the contents on applesauce results in comparable absorption to the intact capsule taken in the fasted states. |
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| Yet she still fasted, in penitence, and ministered to other sick people and to the elderly. |
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| She fasted savagely, stood barefoot on winter mornings while she recited all 150 psalms, and wore iron chains and a hair shirt till the day she died. |
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| His heart was without sin, and for forty years he fasted and scourged himself for sinners. |
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| Animals should be fasted for a period appropriate to the species prior to blood sampling. |
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| Catherine fasted and fed, suffered and served,and especially she took uponherself the sins of everybody. |
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| Confession seemed to not be important and before communion people no longer fasted. |
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| When the tears still did not come, often I went to pray in the mountains and fasted for 3 days. |
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| Throughout Ramadan, Muslims have fasted to focus their minds on faith and to direct their hearts to charity. |
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| As Elisabeth often fasted in order to preserve her slender figure she seldom attended family meals. |
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| When Dartmouth students fasted for world hunger, the Review reportedly held a formal lobster-and-champagne dinner for themselves. |
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| Thus, hand fasted relationships could be broken as they were not sanctified by Holy Church, a nasty invidious Norman custom that was just coming in. |
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| Each group fasted for 14 hours prior to taking part in the study. |
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| That's why the preferred way to test your blood sugar is to take a blood sample from a vein in your arm after you've fasted overnight or for at least eight hours. |
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| Prior to seeing a movie, the volunteers fasted overnight and were given a baseline blood vessel reactivity test to measure what is known as flow-mediated vasodilation. |
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| All subjects fasted for more than four hours before the study. |
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| Blood samples were taken after women had fasted for six hours. |
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| The animals were fasted for 24 hours before the intervention. |
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| We fasted for Yom Kippur, read from the megillah for Purim, and said bruchas over every meal. |
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| We only fasted and prayed and reacted to it all only with goodness. |
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| Genghis Khan usually fasted, prayed and meditated on this mountain before his campaigns. |
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| We prayed and fasted for many days, asking for God's light and wisdom. |
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| He fasted four or five days and prayed to the saint, before returning by sea to Cardross. |
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| Mr Roberts prayed, fasted, wept on prime time and raised the money, but the City of Faith closed down within two years, despite what Jesus had assured him. |
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| The author notes that the union's membership continued to decline in the late 1980s even after Chávez fasted for 36 days to support its grape boycott and anti-pesticide campaign. |
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| I fasted for the next day and a half. The Yemen Café is one of three Yemeni restaurants among a good dozen or so Arab restaurants, bakeries and groceries towards the western end of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. |
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| Despairing, they fasted and prayed for two days. |
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| Effect of acute and chronic moderate alcohol consumption on fasted and postprandial lipemia in the rat. |
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| They fasted on Wednesdays and Fridays until three o'clock as was commonly observed in the ancient church. |
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| He fasted before commemorating Edward the Confessor's feasts, and may have washed the feet of lepers. |
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| Because the Priscillians believe that matter and nature were evil, they became ascetics and fasted on Sundays and Christmas Day. |
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| Inspired by Kafka's short story The Hunger Artist, Hermann Hesse's Siddartha and, possibly, his burgeoning love handles, Blaine fasted while people hurled food and abuse at him. |
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| The gastric emptying of methyl cellulose administered by intubation in fasted rats was studied. |
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| My companions ate merely to satisfy the corrodings of hunger. I fasted till after three the succeeding morning. |
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| And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he was afterward an hungred. |
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| The main rationale for maintaining patients in a preoperative fasted state is the purported risk of pulmonary aspiration upon induction of anaesthesia. |
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