They participate in many of the local observances outside their home, although "it's not always possible to attend because there are so many rituals," Cynthia says.

Shaktas celebrate most major Hindu festivals, as well as a huge variety of local, temple- or deity-specific observances.

There will be dozens of other local observances unconnected with the commission.

Other observances, both official and non-official, local and international, are observed in varying degrees throughout the country.

He continues to be remembered as a local observance in the Catholic Church of Finland, where the cathedral church is dedicated to Henry's memory.

Lately, local observances of the National Day of Prayer have been coming under fire.

There are also synaxes which have been composed for local observance:

Niall Smith, an Irish antiques dealer in Manhattan, called the local observance "gruesome."

Some Muslim holiday observance is also dependent upon local astronomical observance.

During the time of the Tanu ascendancy, the Firvulag, for sorrow and hurt pnde, had let their Grand Loving degenerate into scattered local observances.