Sentence examples for ceremony work from inspiring English sources

One of the astrologers, Padmanabha Sharma, said that the key to making the ceremony work was finding a child who could serve as the "instrument" through which the deity conveyed his wishes.

With the first Bush administration envoy to visit North Korea joining in a rare ceremony, work began today on the foundation of a long-planned nuclear reactor, by far the largest Western aid project in this Communist nation and one on which its future cooperation with the outside world will hinge.

Every practice, every game, every recital, book club, award ceremony, work, school or church function -- that's where our heartbeat is found.

Her groom, however, is a continent away from the ceremony working as a translator in Tunisia.

He was in Stockholm to celebrate the awarding of a Nobel Prize to the head of that research center, but he was also there to see how the Nobel ceremony worked.

When a French girl in the crowd sneezes and the boy offers her his handkerchief, Bartholdi mistakenly takes this as the signal -- but the ceremony works out fine just the same.

In this case Nigel Jamieson, a multitalented creator of mass spectacles like the central sections of the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony, working with the polymath jazz musician, cabaret performer and classical composer Paul Grabowsky, has collaborated with a new generation of Balinese artists to create a technologically transformed shadow puppet extravaganza and fable.

The ceremony works like this: Each participant arrived with a particular problem that he or she had in their lives, for example, a failing marriage, a need for revenge, or an unsuccessful business.

Do the ceremonies work?

If all this seems to be taking preschoolers a bit too seriously, those who organize the graduations say the ceremonies work to the opposite effect.

That's partly because he saw the ceremony as work of an entirely different kind.