Zaire's strongman, Mobutu Sese Seko, whose magical emblem of power, a leopard-skin toque, advertised his allegiance to tribal tradition, mandated the abacost for his followers.
2 30 p.m. 8) TINNED FISH AND CANDLES Lisbon's artisanal shops appear frozen in time, a byproduct of Portugal's 40-year dictatorship that mandated the preservation of tradition.
Where British Tradition once mandated subjects to genuflect before their royals, Britain is now busy instructing itself on how to properly render homage by prostrating themselves nose to ground before their new potentates, the oil barons of Araby.
Jewish tradition mandates that the date of death should be commemorated instead of mourned.
Rabbi Michael DaviSimilarlymber of Jewish Voice for Peace's Rabbinical Council.
It certainly helped that he was a respected religious leader and could speak to the fact that "the tradition" was not mandated by Islam; however this did not guarantee his success, and in the years since Demba first shared his theory with us, we have found that many others can play this role.
"What a great day for the commonwealth of Kentucky," said Novak, whose place in the broadcast was the only one contractually mandated; the others were there by tradition, like the singing of "My Old Kentucky Home".
The briefings aren't mandated by law; they are a tradition, started by President Harry Truman, who ordered them for Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 election.
They've developed strained relationships with healthcare workers and century-old traditions mandate that the ill be taken of at home, Raphael Frankfurter, executive director of Wellbody Alliance -- a group that provides free healthcare in Sierra Leone -- told HuffPost earlier this month.
Frequent recesses are a historical tradition for Congress, and the big August one is actually mandated by law.
But Jim Crow traditions meant an ugly disregard for what was already mandated.
