Sentence examples for greeting ritual from inspiring English sources

Bridge refused to shake Terry's hand in the customary prematch greeting ritual between the two teams.

Instead, you stand there making kennel talk while your Maltese and his schnauzer work their way through the greeting ritual.

It is a reflex question for Palestinians, always posed early in the Arab greeting ritual, to ask a stranger, even another Palestinian, "Where are you from?" before enquiring: "Where do you live?" Few Palestinians live where they feel they belong.

Evernote Hello aims to modernize the standard greeting ritual.

A traditional Tory greeting ritual.

From the Lord of the Rings it appears that Elves do not have a very elaborate greeting ritual.

Greeting rituals of any kind are all about status and power displays and perhaps the veteran film star thought a little faux-sexual fooling about might actually receive a grateful and complimentary reception from the two women.

Some cultures have greeting rituals that may make them better prepared to deal with swine flu.

We learnt about their greeting rituals, family lives, physiology, and evolution, and their vital role as eco-engineers, preventing bush encroachment.

"Ms Merkel traditionally has quite a tactile relationship with other world leaders, involving informal greeting rituals like hugging, cheek-kissing or forms of mock-fighting," says behaviour expert Judi James.

Although the social organization of Guinea baboons resembles that of hamadryas baboons, we found stronger male-male affiliation and more elaborate greeting rituals among male Guinea baboons and less aggression toward females.