Those on family and succession retain certain vestiges of the old patriarchal family system that was the basis of Japanese feudalism.
It was a populist paean to recapture certain vestiges of an America undergoing dramatic change, similar to Donald Trump vowing to "make America great again," a phrase that has roused supporters in Appalachia, the South and the Rust Belt, where blue collar workers feel threatened by immigration and economic globalization.
Certain that the vestiges of religious observance would disappear from Judaism once the modern state of Israel was born, its first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, made a deal: In June 1947, he signed off on what became known as the status quo, deferring to ultra-Orthodox demands regarding the Jewish character of the yet unborn Israel.
If a village wants to see itself as a vestige of a certain sort of Englishness, let it do so, like the "free communes" of Scandinavia.
The apartment has become a legend in certain music circles, the last vestige of a day when musicians met to swap ideas and criticism, drink red wine and create their art.
The cathedrals, however, maintained liturgical vestment standards to a certain degree, even when the last vestiges of liturgical propriety had been extinguished in the parishes in the 18th century.
The philosophy of engagement and objectification has helped create a picture of a human being, at its most extreme in certain forms of materialism, from which the last vestiges of subjectivity seem to have been expelled.
Ordinarily one might assume that the commitment to the practice of the halakhic way of life is an independently specifiable mental act and certain statements that Leibowitz makes in his earlier writings, vestiges of which remain in some less careful later formulations, might appear to suggest this.[9] Yet for Leibowitz, faith is not an independently specifiable psychological state.
The people of Texas have sent their very own Cruz missile to the Senate, set to destroy any remaining vestiges of moderate Republicanism and just about certain to alienate Republican-leaning independents everywhere.
During the second half of the 20th century, there arose among certain avant-garde composers and performers a tendency away from any vestige of traditional structure.
As Washington increasingly comes to rely on the "forward projection" of military force to maintain its global position, the Fulbright Program may be the last vestige of an earlier, more democratic, equitable, and generous America that enjoyed a certain moral and intellectual standing in the world.
