He stepped from a black limousine and briefly stood before the ceremonial Presidential Regiment, which was standing outside in the chill.
On celebrations like the Thai New Year in April, he helped out, serving guests dressed in ceremonial Thai garb the temple provided.
Yesterday's City Hall news conference, which drew a standing-room only crowd to the ceremonial Blue Room, represented a return of sorts to the center stage for the mayor.
The amendments increased the number of seats in the new, largely ceremonial Senate to 93, from 66, and continue to allow Mr. Mugabe to pick 15 of those members.
Many go well beyond the painted patterns on tepees like Ms. Cook's in their efforts to evoke a sense of cultural and spiritual authenticity, displaying ceremonial Native American objects like carved wooden drums, dream catchers, medicine pouches and bunches of spiritually purifying dried herbs.
Until 1993, one of the main tasks of the ceremonial Kremlin Regiment, now officially known as the President's Regiment, was to guard Lenin's mausoleum, which throughout the Soviet era was surrounded by an endless line of officials, labor union delegations, Communist pilgrims, schoolchildren and curious tourists who came to pay their respects.
Why did the Chaco people — the Anasazi, or "ancestral Puebloans," as their descendants prefer — build an enormous ceremonial Great House at Chimney Rock, so far from home, 1,000 feet above the nearest water supply and at the base of immense sandstone spires?
But I don't ever want to be in the position where I said, 'Absolutely, under no circumstances, no.' " Mr. Pataki assembled about 100 members of his staff in the ceremonial Red Room outside his office in the Capitol to break the news of Ms. Mucha's departure.
This nationalistic pride of China was appropriately manifest in the breathtaking beauty of the opening ceremonies, the logistical efficiency of the games, the newly planted forests and a largely ceremonial Olympic Green.
As he arrived at the Vatican, Obama was greeted by Archbishop Georg Ganswein, Prefect of the Pontifical Household, together with a detachment of the ceremonial Swiss Guard.
