How to Use dietary law in a Sentence

dietary law

noun
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  • Kosher dietary laws will be observed at the awards dinner.
    — cleveland, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The vow consists of not cutting the hair and other strict dietary laws to maintain a healthful state of mind and body.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
  • This in fact is the position of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch in his explanation of kashrut (the dietary laws).
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Can a Jewish man refuse to serve food in a plate in which multiple meats have been placed, thus violating his dietary laws?
    — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 July 2017
  • The word is used to describe foods allowed under Islamic dietary laws.
    — Y.c. Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The night will also feature wine, cheese and special delicacies from the book, with dietary laws observed.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Cost for event’s dinner and entertainment is $100 per person and dietary laws will be observed.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Partly, that’s because Jewish dietary laws allow fish to be eaten with either meat or dairy meals.
    — Kimberly Winston and Yonat Shimron, Houston Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2018
  • The restaurant abides by Jewish dietary law (no cheese or dairy products mixed with meat) and observes the Jewish sabbath (closed Friday evenings and Saturdays).
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 11 July 2019
  • Halal refers to food and drink prepared in accordance with Islamic dietary laws.
    — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Kosher salt consists of larger, flakier crystals, named because of its ability to help extract blood and moisture out of meat during the koshering process of Jewish dietary law.
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Critics of the policy said it had been intended to stigmatize Muslims, whose dietary laws, like those for Jews, forbid pork consumption.
    — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • From ritual offerings to dietary laws to prescribed fasts, food has always played an important role in religion.
    — Maria Devlin McNair, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Eleff, however, was concerned about the plane’s several dozen passengers who keep kosher (that is, according to Judaism’s dietary laws).
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Passover is celebrated over the course of eight days with ceremony and celebration among family, but strict traditions and dietary laws must be followed.
    — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The Orthodox Union, a major Jewish organization, said in a statement that the ruling could help Jewish people in the workforce with accommodations such as times to pray and keeping kosher dietary laws.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 June 2023
  • Sharia is not civic law, but rather a set of religious guidelines that govern an individual’s life and faith, including marriages, funerals, dietary laws and even banking practices.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Many scholars, for instance, suspect that the origins of religious dietary laws forbidding the consumption of pig meat lie in pigs’ susceptibility to worms that are harmful to human beings.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Historians have often viewed the church’s increasingly strict enforcement of its dietary laws as a means by which Mormons set themselves apart from the American society they were increasingly immersed within.
    — Matthew Bowman, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Kosher certification confirms that a food product has been properly vetted and monitored for rigorous compliance with traditional Jewish dietary law.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023

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