Compensation was provided by the Lightspeed Consumer Panel to participants in the form of ceremonial "points," which patients were eligible to redeem at the panel's website for various retail products such as online gift certificates, music downloads, and kitchen appliances.
These pyramids became the focal point of Mesoamerican ceremonial life, as well as the centres of settlement.
Most Sant Fe people make a point of attending at least one Indian ceremonial dance each year at some nearby pueblo.
The event marked the ceremonial placing of the top brick on the highest point of the Marlowe Theatre, in Canterbury.
This spot, archeologists believe, was a ceremonial disembarkation point.
Collecting allusion like a ceremonial trail, Section xx also joins The Waste Land in echoing Ariel's "Full fathom five" song, from The Tempest, in what is nevertheless a solemn, crystalline point of arrival.
The ceremonial trappings surrounding the speech make the event one of the high points of the parliamentary calendar, unrivalled in its spectacle and tradition despite some of the more arcane practices having been toned down in recent years.
There was the ceremonial emptying of the dugouts, but the point had been made.
In January this year, there were two tragedies in succession: a multi-storey building collapsed, and a stampede occurred during the ceremonial "stoning of the devil"—always a danger point, especially when pilgrims cross a narrow flyover bridge to reach the ritual.
The head of state is the ceremonial representative of the values and "soul" of a nation.
