Sentence examples for as a initiation from inspiring English sources

Previous reports demonstrated that quadruplets, such as ATAA, TTAA, TTAG, and ATTA could be used as a initiation signal [ 12- 14] although these days, TCG or CGA has more convincing evidence than quadruplets, especially in Diptera [ 15] and Lepidoptera [ 16], respectively.

They have been accused of forcing boys to kill their parents as an initiation rite.

As an initiation into the Olympics, the experience was both dispiriting and un-Klammeresque.

A primary form outlining the minimal requirements for participation could serve as an initiation.

Still later James Frazer, in "The Golden Bough," saw circumcision as an initiation rite that was essentially sacrificial.

Players are constantly on at each other, having a joke at someone else's expense – it's seen as an initiation process.

Over the last three days, people here have been gripped with anxiety over a rampant rumor that a street gang planned to murder a mother and child as an initiation rite on Thursday.

From the early days of the Factory on, Warhol always recorded: visitors were often placed in front of a movie camera in a 'screen test' that also served as an initiation rite.

Jim Levison, a retired New York City detective and East Hampton guide, was appointed treasurer; he collected $50 apiece from the guides as an initiation fee, with dues to be set later.

Mariatu's story goes to the heart of the challenges for anti-FGM campaigners in Sierra Leone, touching on the silent power of the secret societies, who carry out the cutting as an initiation into the group.

In Sikhism, the distribution of karahprasad, a sweet dish of wheat flour, sugar, and clarified butter, is customarily part of a worship service or of any special ceremony, such as an initiation, a wedding, or a funeral.