Sentence examples for countries of passage from inspiring English sources
Hungary and Austria, both countries of passage for the thousands of people clamouring to reach Germany, sought explanations from Berlin but the former partners in the Hapsburg empire reserved their vitriol for each other.
This is common in festivals in which the social order is temporarily suspended or reversed (as in the ancient Roman Saturnalia and the carnival celebrated in many Roman Catholic countries) and in rites of passage (such as initiation).
It is one of three British films to be selected, joining Daniel Wolfe's lovers-on-the-run thriller Catch Me Daddy and Queen and Country, a 50s-set rites-of-passage drama from the veteran film-maker John Boorman.
Interestingly, Tanzania, which has been a traditionally circumcising country as a rite of passage, is transforming itself into a medically circumcising one [ 4].
They have an expo, which is a kind of rite of passage that countries like to do to show they have arrived.
OVER spring break, hundreds of high school juniors in Westchester traveled across the country for an annual rite of passage: the college tour.
In many African countries, male circumcision is a rite of passage, sometimes with dire or lethal results.Now legal worries are making doctors in Germany and elsewhere nervous.
While FGM is illegal in the UK, it is seen as a rite of passage in many countries in Africa, and up to 140 million women globally are believed to have been affected.
Prom night is a memorable rite-of-passage for many high school students across the country.
On December 8, 1941 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Japanese troops entered Thailand and requested the right of passage through the country to facilitate their planned surprise rear attack on British-held Singapore.
A mooted immigration reform that would regularise the status of millions who are in America illegally has even less chance of passage in a country feeling grouchy and vulnerable.Days before the election some Democrats were saying that their party needed a slap to get its fighting spirit up.
