"prayer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Two lower Federal courts had declared the graduation prayer unconstitutional under existing law.
- That appeared to clash with the Supreme Court's past ruling against clergy offering graduation prayers, and left unclear just where the line is drawn on school-sponsored prayer.
- Since the suit began, two lower courts, ruling in the Weismans' favor, have barred mention of a deity in graduation prayers here.
- Yesterday's decision said that the school's policy was prohibited by the 1992 ruling, and that "The student referendum does not erase the state's imprint from this graduation prayer."
- Student-initiated graduation prayers might be constitutional.
- The decision today did not explicitly address graduation ceremonies, but the majority's analysis cast serious doubt on the increasingly popular practice of student-led graduation prayers.
- Opponents of the graduation prayers saw a different slippery slope.
- For the moment, it is the defenders of graduation prayers who feel the nation is still headed downhill.
- Mr. Mincberg said the Court's refusal to hear the case "virtually assures another year of controversy in schools nationwide about the volatile issue of graduation prayer."
- The Supreme Court has ruled that graduation prayers led by members of the clergy are unconstitutional, but has not ruled on student-led prayer.
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