Each month he ritually held an hour-long session of throwing unwanted 'rubbish' out. |
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Truth commissions ritually invert the position of the victim in the politics of pain by shifting the focus from terror to trauma. |
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Although menstruating women are considered ritually impure and may not enter temples, discrimination against women is not pronounced. |
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He appears to slide the glass panel on the left side closed, and then the action is almost ritually repeated in reverse order. |
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Many passers-by stopped to read the posters in detail, as if to ritually acknowledge the lives recorded there. |
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The body is ritually bathed and wrapped in a white shroud in preparation for burial. |
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Although few expect an outright crash, even property professionals who ritually talk up the market are pessimistic. |
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Thus, in Papua New Guinea the Kendengei people of the Sepik ritually scarify adolescent men. |
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It became a movie the entire family watched ritually in consensual comprehension of the continuing dangers of ignorance, hate, and violence. |
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The hajj links pilgrims with Muslims around the world symbolically, ritually, and politically. |
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These evil spirits made people ritually unclean and the unclean could not share in corporate worship. |
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I was ritually acting the book out in some way, which is funny to think about. |
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Should excellence in the high arts be acclaimed, in the same way as achievements in sport are ritually applauded? |
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In 7th century India members of the Thug cult would ritually strangle passers-by as sacrifices to the Hindu deity, Kali. |
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After failing to launch a military coup in 1970, he committed hara-kiri, ritually disembowelling himself. |
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The biggest holiday for them is the three-day series of ceremonies to sacrifice to the ancestral spirits and ritually renew the village. |
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It is the first time Hitchcock would ritually humiliate a glacial blonde onscreen. |
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These women would ritually marry men of a superior caste, have numerous lovers, and bear legitimate children. |
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I had seen her 'smudge' the house with sage smoke, which, done ritually, cleanses the atmosphere. |
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On the tenth day, they are ritually sent back into the spiritual world and the vases are emptied and inverted to signify the end of the festival. |
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The exclusion of the eunuch is ideologically accomplished by designating him as ritually impure. |
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Rival studios and crabby film reviewers may ritually harass the studio, but it remains the most innovative producer of animation in Hollywood. |
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The heroic message of against-all-odds struggle and triumph make this film a popular favorite, broadcast ritually every New Year. |
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Diet books, medical guides, how-tos and self-improvement schemes, after all, ritually command readers to do it this way, not that way. |
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Jesus allows himself to be handled in public by a notorious woman who, with her unbound hair and hysterical display, is rendering him as ritually impure as she is herself. |
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The ritually impure might handle such coins through a layer of cloth. |
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A shaman would perform rituals to prevent the deceased ghost from returning, and individuals who had tended to the body ritually purified themselves. |
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His comment about being a Special Olympian bowler was just one of those things, and he duly, and ritually, apologized. |
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When someone died, the kahuna aumakau of the dead person came and ritually sacrificed a pig or a chicken to ensure that the soul would live with its ancestors. |
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Internally displaced people returning from exile in northern Sudan step over a ritually slaughtered bull on their way to a joyous reception. |
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Traditional carvers would regard their wood splitting as evidence of malignant spirits and would be careful to ritually burn or bury an abandoned sculpture. |
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When is it appropriate to ritually make an offering of some kind? |
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They share their father's OCD and ritually recite odd thoughts. |
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They have eschewed the normal pretence of paying homage to the budgetary rules, as other countries have ritually done when found in persistent breach. |
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A few tribes, including the Plains Cree, ritually marked the occurrence of the girl's first menses. |
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Hindus traditionally view leatherworking as unclean because it involves the hides of dead animals, which are considered ritually polluting. |
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Here Jesus confronts two issues: additional man-made rules and the very essence of what makes someone ritually clean or unclean. |
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The space was ritually divided: the eastern sector was the sacred area, for ancestor worship and royal burial. |
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Manjhi claims a temple in northern Bihar was ritually cleaned and idols washed with holy water after his visit to the shrine. |
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Germany's biggest bank ritually restates its loyalty and the story dies down. |
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Yes, we know the issue has been raised ritually and periodically with the governments of both countries, but we have to do much more. |
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In reality, the men only assist when wells are very deep, difficult to clean, or ritually very important. |
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People with leprosy could no longer participate in religious activities at the temple or synagogue because they were ritually unclean. |
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If a ritually impure woman is considered physically unclean or repulsive, this may cause damage to her own attitudes and self-esteem. |
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As the water pours to the ground his hands, ears, lips, nose, arms, and feet are all ritually washed. |
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The transfer of bones and corpses took place ritually every evening at nightfall. |
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As a result of both of these processes the 4,000 or so Batwa are dominated by the villagers both economically and ritually. |
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In fact, by ritually imitating the masked dances at the Hogon's funeral, the women have transgressed a taboo. |
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The addition of fat from animals that have been ritually slaughtered is allowed, as well as vegetable fat. |
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By faith God Himself has cleaned the hearts of the Gentiles, even though their body remains ritually unclean because they are not circumcised. |
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Instead, any impulse for transparent dialogue is ritually displaced into domestic disputes about matters such as fidelity to the nation state during times of conflict. |
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After failing to launch a right-wing military coup in 1970, he committed hara-kiri, ritually disembowelling himself before being decapitated by an assistant. |
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This predominance was rooted in the efforts of parents, particularly fathers, to ritually reintegrate the family as a community rooted in and legitimized by mutual affection. |
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Ireland's letter ritually attacked the Democracy's support of bimetallism. |
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This man was ill, ritually unclean, unkempt, probably physically repulsive, an outcast from society, and unqualified to approach God at the temple, but Jesus felt compassion. |
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A litter of week-old pedigree puppies were ritually sacrificed so that their silky soft, pure-white hides could be sewn together to line each shoe. |
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A reasonable observer would no doubt conclude that the First Amendment was not meant to be a platform for ritually re-enacting Paul's colloquy with the Roman magistrate. |
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That account in terms of fossilization certainly eases the awkwardness of explaining why, for instance, the wife of the archon basileus was held to be ritually married to the god Dionysus. |
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When the French king's effigy was put on display in comparable circumstances, it was endowed with attributes and treated ritually as if it were alive. |
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The camera lingers on Lydia's ceremonial suiting-up process, like the robing of a priest before mass, and indeed like the way Alicia's bedgown is ritually changed and adjusted. |
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Jesus' teaching about what was ritually clean and unclean was a very contentious issue both during his ministry on earth and afterwards as Gentile converts joined the church. |
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Footwear must be removed on entering a mosque for fear of defiling the interior with ritually impure substances that may have adhered to the sole of the shoe. |
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The ritually enacted photographs that visitors take of themselves serve to concretise that moment whose fleetingness will soon be looked back upon with longing. |
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In Sri Lanka, credit is given to the men who are supposed to do this work because they are ritually cleaner than women, who menstruate and bear children. |
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The dead were to be ritually mourned through public ceremony, sacrifice, and libations, or else they might return to haunt their families. |
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The widely recommended DVD we ordered turned out to be a creepy pseudo-Scientologist parade of weird adults and unhappy-looking children, and we ritually destroyed it the second it was over. |
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Except in its greater complexity, a mandala does not differ from a yantra, and both are drawn during a highly complex ritual in a purified and ritually consecrated place. |
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In some West African cults, for example, before the central pole of a shrine or a house is installed, an animal is ritually slain, its blood being poured around the foundations and its body being put into the posthole. |
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Managers ritually ask players to dig deep. |
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On the night before her wedding Channa Washinsky would certainly have immersed herself in the ritually cleansing waters of the mikveh. |
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The Tanakh describes circumstances in which a person who is tahor or ritually pure may become tamei or ritually impure. |
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In typical rites, the coven or solitary assembles inside a ritually cast and purified magic circle. |
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This idea has as its corollary the possibility of ritually enacting the cosmic drama and, thus, of influencing those events in the cosmos that continuously affect human weal and woe. |
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Later the same day the branded ox was ritually medicated for apotropaic reasons with bile from another ox killed by a blow to the head from a stone to obtain its gall bladder. |
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Sikhs vow to wear the five Ks, which include a dagger, comb and bangle, and to eat only ritually killed meat, refrain from committing adultery or cutting their hair. |
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Prior to these, the local kami may be ritually installed in mikoshi and paraded through the streets, such as Gion in Kyoto, and Hadaka in Okayama. |
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Every time he is ritually debagged by drunken louts, 50 points. |
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Throngs of pilgrims, young and old, women and men, rich and poor, ritually circumambulated around the statue in prayerful silence, hands clasped at their chests. |
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The problem is not that we cremate our dead, but how ritually denatured, spiritually vacant, religiously timid, and impoverished we have allowed the practice to become. |
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