What's the difference between kosher and religious?

Kosher


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) London is seen as the home of publishing, a place that's kosher, where Dickens walked the streets."
  • (2) The FN has made political capital about cruelty to animals in the preparation of halal and kosher meat in the past, and its MEPs are preparing a resolution that would limit shale gas exploration, despite the party voting against a shale moratorium in the last parliament.
  • (3) The report also noted the practice of issuing "kosher certificates" indicating that no Arabs were employed by a business.
  • (4) A total of 147 people were killed in attacks in 2015 – from January’s gun attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a kosher grocery store to the coordinated gun and bomb attacks on 13 November .
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bastille Day truck attack: what happened in Nice One hundred and 47 people were killed in attacks in 2015 – from January’s gun attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a kosher grocery store to the coordinated gun and bomb attacks across Paris on 13 November .
  • (6) The parliamentary commission was set up to assess the failure to prevent a series of attacks that killed a total of 147 people in 2015 – from January’s gun attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices and a kosher grocery store to the coordinated gun and bomb attacks on 13 November outside the national sports stadium, at bars and restaurants and at a rock gig at the Bataclan concert hall.
  • (7) There has never been a big movement to demand halal or kosher meat in France – children who eat only halal or kosher either go home for lunch or attend private faith schools.
  • (8) Much more of this and voters will surely treat each announcement from the Department of Work and Pensions as about as kosher as a Tesco value burger.
  • (9) What about the rights of employees?” he asked at one point siding with the government, before going to express concern at the notion that companies would lose their right to appeal future restrictions over issues such as kosher butchery practices.
  • (10) In the video AQAP appears to avoid taking responsibility for the actions of Coulibaly, who shot dead a police officer and then four hostages in a kosher supermarket.
  • (11) The marvellous portrait of Manchester's Jewish community in ITV's Strictly Kosher is one example of how the media can help us to see the people around us as they really are.
  • (12) Danish intelligence services have suggested the fatal Copenhagen shooting of a film-maker at a freedom-of-speech debate and a Jewish security guard at a synagogue may have been a copycat of last month’s Paris attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket.
  • (13) Many of the attackers in the January assault on Charlie Hebdo and a Paris kosher supermarket as well as in the massacres in November were known to French security services.
  • (14) After last week’s atrocious events in Paris , which claimed the lives of 17 innocent people including journalists, two policemen and a policewoman, a maintenance worker and four Jewish shoppers at a kosher supermarket, France, home to the largest Jewish population in Europe – somewhere between 500,000 and 600,000 people – faces a brutal reckoning about the future of its second largest ethno-religious minority.
  • (15) As France comes to terms with the problem of homegrown terrorism in the wake of January’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which began with a massacre at the magazine Charlie Hebdo and ended with a bloody siege at a kosher supermarket, there has been a renewed focus on the grim realities of France’s ghetto estates, dumped on the outskirts of cities and rife with discrimination, joblessness and poverty.
  • (16) Denmark’s spy chief, Jens Madsen, said the gunman – who was known to police because of past violence, gang-related activities and possession of weapons – had perhaps been trying to stage a copycat attack of the three days of bloody mayhem in Paris last month, which began with a massacre of cartoonists and others at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended in a murderous siege at a kosher supermarket.
  • (17) After Amedy Coulibaly murdered four shoppers in a kosher supermarket in Paris last month, and the earlier deadly attack on the Brussels Jewish museum, it is clear that Jewish communities across Europe are under threat from a hatred that may claim its origin in opposition to Israel and Zionism, but whose form resembles all too closely the dark history of antisemitism.
  • (18) Jindal’s remarks come in the wake of the massacre by Islamic extremists at a Paris magazine’s offices and subsequent attack on a kosher supermarket in the city.
  • (19) The latest row comes as the government tries to calm tensions and deal with rising antisemitism and Islamophobia after January’s terrorist attacks , which began with a massacre at the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended with a bloody siege at a kosher supermarket.
  • (20) This statement provoked anger not only among Muslims, who felt they were being used as an electioneering tool, but also Jews whose kosher meat follows the same ritual ways of killing as halal meat.

Religious


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
  • (a.) Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
  • (a.) Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.
  • (a.) Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
  • (n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
  • (2) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
  • (3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
  • (4) In the process, the DfE's definition of extremism has shifted from actual bomb-throwers to religious conservatives.
  • (5) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
  • (6) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
  • (7) Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month.
  • (8) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
  • (9) Males scored higher than females on theoretical and lower on religious scales.
  • (10) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
  • (11) Religious efforts to address the issue have also been complicit in absolving men of their crimes, objectifying women and doing more harm than good with campaigns that blame women for the phenomenon.
  • (12) However, social support significantly correlated with depression and there was some indication that the type of institutional setting and frequency of religious participation also interacts with the level of depression.
  • (13) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (14) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
  • (15) There are long-running tensions between the state and the region's large Uighur Muslim population, with many angered by cultural and religious restrictions imposed by the Chinese authorities and some aspiring to independence for what they call East Turkestan.
  • (16) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
  • (17) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
  • (18) But first he flew to Saudi Arabia to make the religiously encouraged pilgrimage to Mecca; he found himself stranded in Bahrain after he was unable to enter Kenya.
  • (19) In the afternoon he reads historical or religious books and novels.
  • (20) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.