Sentence examples for elaborate practices from inspiring English sources

Worship of the gods involved sacrifices (including human), chants and recitations, feasting (often with great prodigality), ritual sex (to promote fertility), and other elaborate practices, often preceded by long fasting and abstinence.

Very refined elaborate practices of exclosure of young or overgrazed trees by means of stone walls ('tahboucht' in Berber), and of shaping and linking twigs in order to favour twig anastomosis, are sometimes employed by the local population in order to preserve and prepare them for improved forage, and pole or beam production (Genin and Alifriqui, in press).

Elaborate cultic practices surround those sources of water that have been the scenes of epiphanies (manifestations of deities or sacred beings) or in which divinities are believed to dwell.

Further investigation – combining qualitative and quantitative data – of how the advanced stoves integrate into daily routines may help elaborate best practices for exposure reductions and inform future stove designs.

These strategies will be used to elaborate individual practice concepts as a further step of tailoring in the delivery phase of the intervention [ 24].

Almost all religions involve an elaborate set of practices and beliefs, evolved over many centuries, whose vocabulary is highly specific.

Time Warner Cable declined to elaborate on its practices on Wednesday, but said in a statement that "it is absurd to suggest that, in today's highly competitive video marketplace, obtaining some level of exclusivity is anticompetitive.

An example illustrating the importance of allowing instructors to elaborate on their practices was evident when asked, "How do you describe your role as a teacher?" Many instructors described their role as a facilitator.

The Italians were particularly taken with special effects and delighted in elaborating on medieval practices.

To deal with such causes there are many varieties of indigenous healers who practice elaborate rituals on behalf of both the physically ill and the mentally afflicted.

Erectile dysfunction (ED) prevalence is usually based on questionnaires, too elaborate for daily practice.