Sentences with phrase «embraced by the local people»

Rise early to watch 2,000 monks walking through the streets of the old royal capital in a ceremony embraced by the local people, who turn out daily to give alms to the monks.

Local colour sometimes equates to «tourist shows», but in Laos it is the Tagbat: 2,000 monks walking around Luang Prabang at 6 am in a ceremony embraced by local people.

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Using techniques of poster painting, street art and advertising signage in their work, a style that has now been embraced by many contemporary artists from across the continent, the Zaire School were clear that their paintings were for local people.

Are Walmart's significant efforts to make their product chain more environmentally friendly enough to enable them to be embraced, not just begrudgingly tolerated as the biggest retailer in the world (and therefore a force which has to be acknowledged), by the environmental community, let alone those people working for social justice and local businesses?

The findings come from a benchmarking survey of 264 young people aged eight to 17 years in 2011 across seven schools, funded by VicHealth as part of its three year Localities Embracing and Accepting Diversity (LEAD) project, which trialled a range of anti-racism interventions across two local government areas, including in schools and businesses.

«It is my hope that the local agents in Mississauga will embrace this new free site as a marketing vehicle to tap new prospective clients or to share their insights by blogging with local residents or to direct people to relevant information about a local area when they are contemplating a purchase,» Yolanda says.