| It does not come from recitation of hymns, sacrificial worship or a hundred fasts. |
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| Juice or fruit fasts are common, restricting nutrient intake to only those specific food sources. |
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| In ancient times, fasts were traditional at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes and were believed to increase fertility. |
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| When hungry worshippers broke their fasts, bakers were ready with cakes and breads to which dairy and eggs were added with a generous hand. |
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| This criminal's regular fasts are little more than a sustained effort to bolster his profile. |
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| The male fasts while incubating for 60 days till the female returns at hatching time. |
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| They had some institutions of religious observances, including public prayers and fasts. |
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| As Muslims, we perform the namaz, perform the Hajj, pay our Zakat, believe in Allah and his Messenger and keep our fasts. |
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| The shopkeepers would resort to fasts, protest demonstrations and gheraos. |
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| Soyinka is a food and wine enthusiast, but he also sinks easily into a kind of ascetic mode and fasts regularly. |
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| By Barbara Brody for Life by DailyBurn Forget colonics and ultra-low-cal juice fasts. |
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| Since it was difficult to adhere to the advice imparted by visions, men and women went on annual fasts or retreats to renew the vision and reflect on their lives. |
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| It is a land where the faithful are summoned by drums, where the whole population fasts two days a week and where no-one smokes because the Church disapproves of the habit. |
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| And I will keep all the remaining fasts of the month of Ramazan. |
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| Repeated juice fasts are recommended at intervals of every two months. |
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| The sponsored fasts will take place between February 28 and March 1st. |
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| Although the fasts of the month of Muharram are not obligatory, yet one who fasts in these days out of his own will is entitled to a great reward by Allah Almighty. |
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| Mahatma Ghandi made effective use of political fasts, as did the British suffragists, who brought hunger strikes to the American suffrage movement. |
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| For others, flexibility is allowed depending on circumstances, but missed fasts usually must be made up quickly. |
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| However the way believers follow these fasts and feasts differs from church to church. |
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| On the occasion of Shivratri, devotees observe fasts, recite mantras and slokas of Lord Shiva to stay awake throughout night. |
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| Their days of rest are wrested from them, their feasts are fasts, their lot is dust instead of luster. |
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| The constitution of the church states that the feasts, fasts or lents are not to be removed or altered from church at any time. |
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| I like to do fasts and detoxes a couple of times during the year, the most hardcore one being the Master Cleanse I did last spring. |
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| Thus, he kept the fasts of the Muslims and broke fast when they did. |
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| Mar Thoma church being a part of Antiochian tradition churches, follows all the canonical feasts and fasts which are related to important events in life of Jesus Christ. |
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