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Independence Day is one of America's principal legal holiday.
独立日是美国主要法定节日之一。
And in 1941, Thanksgiving was finally sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth Thursday in November.
1941年，美国国会最终通过决议，将感恩节定为美国法定假日，的时间是每年11月的最后一个星期四。
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar (the other being the Chinese Lunar New Year), and is a legal holiday in several countries.
中秋节是其中两个最重要的假期，在中国日历（其他被中国农历新年），是一个法律假期，在几个国家。

The 90th day after respondent mailed the notice was Thursday, July 7, 2011, which was not a legal holiday in the District of Columbia.
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Before going on holiday, ministers agreed that the time legal immigrants must wait before seeking citizenship should be halved to five years.
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As we remarked in a late December 2011 post, federal judges have no qualms with keeping lawyers, reporters, legal commentators, and other interested parties busy during the holiday season by releasing decisions in high-profile cases.
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any of several weekdays which are observed as national holidays (Also called (Canadian) statutory holidayBrit equivalent bank holiday)