Sentences with phrase «old custom of»

Additionally, the age old custom of examining students on the basis of their writing skills demand such services for students who are otherwise talented.

A wedding looks inadequate without mehndi because it is an old custom of each Asian nation, and it is still continuously followed by every woman in Asia.

The age - old custom of swaddling, or tightly wrapping each baby in a thin blanket, may help them feel safe, secure, and ready for sleep.

As well, she works to promote the age - old custom of bringing baby home after death for private family time.

Engage with the rural culture of Bali in a village tour designed to reveal and sustain the age old customs of community life.

Not exact matches

Getaway, a three - year - old start - up that offers custom - built tiny homes nestled in the heart of nature, is betting on its 140 - to 200 - sq.

She said a decade - old U.S. program aimed at automating customs barely does anything as a result of this.

In many cases, the best way to manage monthly transfers from the old country is to contact a currency trading firm such as Custom House (www.customhouse.com) or the currency trading arm of a bank.

«I really wanted to stay at home, sewing and being with my kids,» says Rebekah Scott, a mother of four who runs an 11 - year - old custom - handbag company in Valley Springs, South Dakota.

There is opportunity for everybody, no matter where you live, you just have to be willing to work harder (and smarter) than everyone else, while my many of my friends in college worked at McDonald's and partied, I started my own custom harvesting business with loan for a 10 year old combine, and an old tandem axle truck.

It was part of a way to tell the Good News of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection without forcefully removing old rituals and customs.

The older I get, and the more I study the Word of God, alone The more I can not soatmch «christian» books.I am finding that I am more interested in the original languages (Hebrew, Greek) that the Word was penned in (via the Holy Spirit) before it was «translated» and the cultures and customs of that day.Knowing these things really open up The Scriptures.

In 1832, Harvard professor Charles Follen introduced to America the four centuries - old German custom of bringing an evergreen tree into the home and decorating it to celebrate Christmas.

It happens in every under developed society because of old traditional rules and customs and everyone knows that, no need to further argue on that.

Or perhaps Jarvis had heard of the Old World custom of Mothering Sunday, a mid-Lent celebration focused on returning home and paying homage to one's mother.

Rather (and I say this a bit maliciously) its proponents are concerned to get Christianity «out of customs» — to persuade secular revolutionists that Christianity has rid itself of its old conformisms and its rapport with the state, capitalism, colonialism, etc..

When in unmodernized areas of Chinese life today, the legal authorities, unable to capture the real culprit in a felony, seek his son instead to be punished as his substitute, the same ideas and customs are evident with which the Old Testament began.

At the beginning, their «psalms and hymns and spiritual songs» (Colossians 3:16: Ephesians 5:19) were probably taken over and adapted from the older heritage, and while the evidence on this matter is scant, the devotional services of the early churches doubtless leaned heavily on the Old Testament, especially the Psalter, and even on the customs of the synagogue.

Futhermore, not everything that is worrying conservative Catholics after the Council is only the imagination of old - fashioned people who confuse traditional customs with ever - valid truths.

Such depth of belief could never have been developed in the Old World or by returning to its customs.

There simply were not enough baby boys born during the war years to provide husbands for the bumper crop of girls born in 1947,» 48, and ’49 (given the then - custom for women to marry men a year or two older than themselves).

The rapid influx of new ideas, exotic religions, strange customs, foreign languages, and novel wares catapulted the old Athenians out of their comfortable little world into a perplexing cosmopolitan setting.

-- It was the custom in the day of the author to refer to the older more prominent prophet as the source (as there was but one book of prophets) in this case Jeremiah 32:6 - 9 «The word of the Lord came and said buy my field at Anathoth.....

The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

According to the old custom the parents of the concerned parties monopolized the whole affair.

This meant catering to the specific needs of each ethnic group and providing a refuge for them where Old World languages and customs could be preserved.

(I Samuel 26:19 [Marginal translation]-RRB- Indeed, the whole complex of taboo, custom, and rite, revealed in the Old Testament, went back originally to this primitive desire to do something, however non-moral or bizarre, so to Yahweh's taste that it would ward off the troubles that he held in his control.

What we do have in the Old Testament is a mass of evidence that the dead were of profound importance to the living, that elaborate ceremonies and popular customs were involved in dealing with them, and that such observances were concerned both with the veneration due from the living to the departed and with the possible good or evil that might come from the departed to the living.

«Again, the corrupt and unsound form of speaking in the plural number to a single person, you to one, instead of thou, contrary to the pure, plain, and single language of truth, thou to one, and you to more than one, which had always been used by God to men, and men to God, as well as one to another, from the oldest record of time till corrupt men, for corrupt ends, in later and corrupt times, to flatter, fawn, and work upon the corrupt nature in men, brought in that false and senseless way of speaking you to one, which has since corrupted the modern languages, and hath greatly debased the spirits and depraved the manners of men; — this evil custom I had been as forward in as others, and this I was now called out of and required to cease from.

If they hold a Seder in their homes on the first night of the Passover, or take their families to a synagogue on the Day of Atonement, it is only because they feel that it won't do the children any harm, and may even do them a mite of good, to be exposed to a sentimental observance of old folk customs that are part of their heritage.

The similes of the new patch on the old garment and of new wine in the old wineskins (Mark 2:21 - 22) are susceptible of several interpretations (for example, in the joy of the Messianic age the ancient mourning customs no longer have meaning); but the original significance of the words can no longer be ascertained.

There are many in the church, like Mary Needham, who simply want to cling to old rituals, old formulations of truth and belief, and old forms of worship and witness that have hardened into the rigid framework of custom.

They represented the old ideals; they were often, it may be, of semi-nomadic habits; they were reactionaries against the new customs and especially the new luxury and inequality represented by the nobles and the court.

He stood in vehement opposition to the modern customs, which presumably included the luxurious court, the collapse of old simplicities, the conscription of farmers and shepherds into military service, mounting taxation, the decay of old nomadic ideals of brotherhood.

They never succeeded in making the old folk - ways regnant in the new civilization but they did succeed, as no other religious teachers of antiquity ever succeeded, in elevating their god above both the nationalistic policies and the economic customs of their people.

On the one side was the utter ruin of the old, sustaining sacred places and customs with which their faith in God had been identified, and on the other side was the competition of the brilliant gods of Babylon, who, according to ancient theory, had proved their reality and power by the ascendency of their people.

And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast.

The history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice.»

It might have seemed of small account that in their processions the boys of Catholic Action walked in threes, in imitation of the Fascist militia, and not in fours, as they had done up to 1922; that they carried their flags with the staffs resting on their stomachs, again in imitation of the Fascists, and not on their shoulders, as had been the custom before the March on Rome; that even the most obscure parish magazines and journals of religious associations showed the year of the regime along - side that of the Christian era; and that Catholics habitually observed all the outward forms of Fascism, beginning with the Roman salute and the conversational use of voi, abandoning, because the Duce so willed it, the age - old use of the third person as the polite form of address.

Scotland, whose religion, laws, customs, and traditions have always been more European than English, and which spent most of the Middle Ages allying with France against the old English enemy, did not join in.

He was a lover of old customs and thought it foolish to reject practices, harmless in themselves, if the «people are much addicted to them.»

This led to the breakdown of the old law and customs and, earlier common field agriculture was destroyed.

Traditionally it has to be «di magro» or meatless, a custom which dates back to older church doctrine that limited the eating of meat on holy days.

The old lussegubbar custom virtually disappeared with urban migration, and white - clad Lucias with their singing processions were considered a more acceptable, controlled form of celebration than the youthful carousals of the past.Stockholmproclaimed its first Lucia in 1927.

We're sharing the old kitchen custom of the super moist chop - and - stir cake.

The old lussegubbar custom virtually disappeared with urban migration, and white - clad Lucias with their singing processions were considered a more acceptable, controlled form of celebration than the youthful carousals of the past.

«The Trinidad and Tobago Customs and Excise Division was extremely supportive during our time of need,» Franco recalls, adding that it took two years to demolish the wreckage of the old warehouse and build a new one from the floor up.

It was the burning of the Christmas candle; and of this old, forgotten custom of provincial towns I have an odd story to tell.

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