This is a ceremonial disk.

They carried ceremonial hunting bows and performed the waita dance running in circles and simulating birdsong of Papua's Mee Pago tribe.

A newly established State Ceremonial Unit made its first public appearance at the SFOR EUFOR transfer of authority on 2 December.

A ceremonial opening of the Council Forum will also be held on Monday, 6 February 2006, at 7.30 p.m., together with the third Zayed Prize award ceremony.

No, it's not true that they're kept in the darkness for 18 years, but they are kept within the confines of the ceremonial men's circle for 18 years.

The campaigns to have women and excisors turn in their ceremonial cutting knives, in Kouroussa (6 November 1999), Kérouané (2 June 2000), Conakry (10 May 2001) and Mamou (2002).

It is a ceremonial pouring vessel made around 1700 for a Swedish Count, and it is very likely the object from which Hammett drew his inspiration for the Maltese Falcon.

During the inauguration ceremony, the Ceremonial Leader and Holy Man from the SHIPAVLOVI HOPI Community in Second Mesa, Arizona, United States of America, offered words of blessing to the Forum.

The State party further explains that under an Ontario recreational fishing licence, a person may choose to fish not for recreational purposes but for food, social, educational or ceremonial purposes.

Under these agreements, which were renewable yearly, First Nations were permitted to hunt and fish outside the reserves, for subsistence, as well as for ceremonial and spiritual purposes, and barter in kind.

2. States shall seek to enable the access and or repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains in their possession through fair, transparent and effective mechanisms developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned.

The members of the Tangren ceremonial team wore dresses with flowers, and took neat steps to farewell to 10 anti war veterans and four partners of the anti war veterans in a neat queue.

The largest of those SPLA redeployments was the movement of approximately 600 troops into Juba immediately prior to the funeral of Mr. Garang to perform both security and ceremonial duties in close cooperation with the Sudanese Armed Forces.

Underneath this ceremonial role, he was really modest and really introverted so much so that when he delivered these sermons, he had trouble making eye contact with the very same congregation that he had been speaking to for 62 years.

In these waters the members of the Hiawatha First Nation do not have to comply with Ontario's normal fishing restrictions, such as closed seasons and catch limits and have a right to fish year round for food, ceremonial and social purposes.

World famous but controversial, Blair is capable of rallying public opinion and giving the European project the high profile that the EU craves. But he s also liable to turn a 30 month ceremonial post as the EU s figurehead into one with much more political clout than its 27 national leaders might like.

Women hear over and over that we have to be twice as good as men to be perceived as successful, deserving leaders. Even if we disregard some of the accusations against Patil as baseless, it is hard to imagine a less powerful candidate for the highest ceremonial post in the largest democracy in the world.

1. Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practise, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies the right to maintain, protect and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects and the right to the repatriation of their human remains.

In theory, this already has happened K. R. Narayanan, born into a poor Dalit family, served as India s president, the highest office in the land, from 1997 to 2002. But the Indian Presidency is a largely ceremonial position real power is vested in the office of prime minister, and no Dalit has come close to holding that post.

To be sure, in EU institutions public and ceremonial meetings, interpretation and translation must be equally available, at least in principle, from every language into every other. Each day, hundreds of interpreters literally pay lip service to this lofty precept, and millions of pages are translated annually so that citizens may consult EU law in their own language.

Although India s presidency is primarily a ceremonial post that carries less weight than that of prime minister (the position once held by Indira Gandhi), it is symbolically significant. Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the ruling Congress Party, who pushed hard to promote Patil s candidacy primarily on gender grounds, calls this election a special moment for women across the country.

While India s president may be only a ceremonial head of state, during periods of political instability especially in the current age of coalition governments it is the president who makes crucial decisions about governing parties. Many past presidents have also used the position to throw their intellectual weight behind such important issues as education and India s cultural diversity.

In an effort to stem recurrent debt crises, traditional societies embraced the Law of Jubilee, a ceremonial wiping clean of the slate. The Law of Jubilee, writes Graeber, stipulated that all debts be automatically canceled in the Sabbath year (that is, after seven years had passed), and that all who languished in bondage owing to such debts would be released.

O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can understand all that ye say, nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. If ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands. For Allah doth blot out sins and forgive again and again.

O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can understand all that ye say, nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. If ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands. For Allah doth blot out sins and forgive again and again.