We're losing a ritual.

And I began my ritual.

Ritual Female Genital Operation (Female Circumcision)

And they did this incredible ritual combat dance.

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A sacred ritual took place in the magnificent temple.

And based on this, we created a ritual for leaders.

Spectator play, ritual play we're involved in some of that.

And then you do the ritual dances that empower the crosses.

You see it is based on the Hindu ritual of Darshan.

Female genital mutilation is a coming of age ritual in some societies.

And so he took me through the initiation ritual for a Bamana priest.

And when my ritual began, this very voluble patient began to quiet down.

And they immediately said to me, Well you are describing a classic ritual.

Tired diplomatic postures and ritual incantations are not what these challenging times demand.

and (finally) those who do not miss their ritual prayers at the prescribed times

and (finally) those who do not miss their ritual prayers at the prescribed times

So, 500 years after Columbus, these ancient rhythms of landscape are played out in ritual.

No, this ritual was about the one message that physicians have needed to convey to their patients.

And they actually take items of clothing and photographs, and they burn them as part of the ritual.

I remember so many huge, hollowed out, haunted eyes staring up at me as I performed this ritual.

And in that time she created an alternative ritual which involved girls coming of age without the cut.

Say 'My prayer, my ritual sacrifice, my living, my dying all belongs to God, the Lord of all Being.

Say 'My prayer, my ritual sacrifice, my living, my dying all belongs to God, the Lord of all Being.

When we were there she was doing a ritual where she reconciles girls, who have run away, with their families.

We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient physician relationship.

Mr. Gillerman (Israel) Israel did not take part in yesterday's annual ritual of turning 29 November into a Palestinian festival.

It was a very old ritual that seemed symbolic of the political struggle that was changing the face of South Africa.

So I think it tells us that we've designed this ritual to connect us to this new couple, connect us emotionally.

Well I would submit to you that the ritual of one individual coming to another and telling them things that they would not tell their preacher or rabbi, and then, incredibly on top of that, disrobing and allowing touch I would submit to you that that is a ritual of exceeding importance.

And he viewed proto shamanism as a kind of original attempt, through ritual, to rekindle a connection that had been irrevocably lost.

However, Abe plans to send a ritual offering to the Yasukuni Shrine to mark the anniversary on Monday, Jiji reported on Thursday.

We seem to have forgotten as though, with the explosion of knowledge, the whole human genome mapped out at our feet, we are lulled into inattention, forgetting that the ritual is cathartic to the physician, necessary for the patient forgetting that the ritual has meaning and a singular message to convey to the patient.

For every people We have laid down a ritual of sacrifice( although the purpose of the ritual is the same )that they pronounce the name of Allah over the cattle He has provided them. Your Lord is One God so submit yourselves to Him alone. And give, (O Prophet), glad tidings to those that humble themselves (before Allah),

For every people We have laid down a ritual of sacrifice( although the purpose of the ritual is the same )that they pronounce the name of Allah over the cattle He has provided them. Your Lord is One God so submit yourselves to Him alone. And give, (O Prophet), glad tidings to those that humble themselves (before Allah),

Neither of us could skip this ritual, which had nothing to do with detecting rales in the lung, or finding the gallop rhythm of heart failure.

Democracy is increasingly seen as a mere ritual. In general, Western societies, it seems, are experiencing a certain crisis of the democratic ethos and active citizenship.

If those of you who are here remember that I mentioned that they remain ruled by a ritual priesthood, but the training for the priesthood is extraordinary.

He said, For three years, my girlfriend and I, we've made it this Sunday morning ritual to visit the PostSecret blog together and read the secrets out loud.

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And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.

And I remember having a very eerie sense that the patient and I had slipped back into a primitive ritual in which I had a role and the patient had a role.

I always begin with the pulse, then I examine the hands, then I look at the nail beds, then I slide my hand up to the epitrochlear node, and I was into my ritual.

But America s ritual annual gift of roughly 1.5 billion could only dull the pain of Egypt s problems, not resolve them. The country can no longer provide enough government stipends in the form of bureaucratic posts for college graduates.

Worship, religious rites and ceremonies shall be exercised at a religious organization's premises, prayer buildings and other properties belonging to the organization, at pilgrimage sites, cemeteries, and in cases of ritual necessity and at citizens' will at home.