Sentence examples for Time-honored practices from inspiring English sources

Time-honored practices often start by happenstance and blossom into historical permanence without warning: one winter solstice, a druid drags a bush into his hut; 2,000 years later, Wal-Mart is selling flame-retardant plastic pines.

And, like Mr. Engles, Mr. Hanman went against the time-honored practices of his trade.

Washing our hands and cleaning counter space are still time-honored practices.

Similarly, in 1986, Mr. Fischler, as president of the Antwerp Diamond Bourse, defended the industry's time-honored practices of secrecy and sealing a deal with a handshake.

His most recent book is " The Art of Slow Reading: Six Time-Honored Practices for Engagement" (Heinemann).He can be reached at [email protected]

In a major report on the state of the muni market last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned that communities would find it increasingly costly to raise money, throwing into question the time-honored practices of building and financing public works at the local level.

We should go back to the ancient and time honored practice of dying at home with a warm and loving send-off from close family and friends.

After arduous politicking, diplomacy and compromise, that time honored practice, currently out of vogue, held the day and on July 2nd 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill into law.

IAF's National Student Debt Jubilee Project, led by Mary and Steven Swig, argues that wiping out all student debt (based a time honored practical and moral Jubilee practice) would be good for all American's because it would stimulate the economy, creating jobs and growth.

Wasn't it the reason the world stopped interfering with the practice of time-honored customs like honor killing and female genital mutilation?

In a new exhibition opening in London this month, the time honored study and practice of cartography ventures into the conceptual as well as the physical, and we find that for many artists the street is as much about poetry and perception as it is about aerosol and wheat-pasted paper.