Sentence examples for formal initiation from inspiring English sources

On the Vaisakhi day of 1699 (the first day of the month of 'Vaisakh' in the Sikh calendar), Siri Guru Gobind Singh Sahib, the tenth Guru, formalized the concept of Saint-Soldier by introducing the Amrit ceremony (the formal initiation ceremony).

Student after student at Mepham High School said the sports teams had few, if any, formal initiation rituals.

He also joined Chi Phi, the fraternity where he caroused as a younger man — although he managed to bypass the often grueling process of pledging, the step before formal initiation into the group.

But the rite was necessary to mark their formal initiation into the warrior caste.

During the week in the high desert of Arizona, one of the participants asked Arrien to arrange his formal initiation as a man.

International militant groups who want to fight alongside YPG are often required to go through a formal initiation to the cause, before being given official Kurdish names.

All participating physiotherapy departments will receive a formal site initiation visit by the Chief Investigator during which training on standard operating procedures for data collection will take place.

There was little in the way of formal schooling or initiation ceremonies in most Micronesian societies.

During the Nara period (710 784) in Japan, the Buddhists felt handicapped by a lack of ordained priests qualified to carry out the formal ceremonies of initiation and sent an invitation to Chien-chen (Japanese: Ganjin), a leading Chinese scholar of vinaya.

Indeed, he could serve as Exhibit A in a study of the outsider phenomenon: cases of wild, solipsistic genius that challenge the values of formal training and cultural initiation, not to mention sanity, in significant art.

The objective of this paper is to explore, describe, and explicate the processes, factors, and dynamics that relate to the initiation of formal planning efforts within organizations.