The point of the ban is that women avoid situations that lead to them mixing with and meeting men.
Mladic liked nothing better than to parade as a proud Serbian military officer, mixing with and confronting French brigadiers, British generals and US commanders on equal terms.
The expanding blast wave and hot stellar debris slowly dissipate over hundreds of thousands of years, eventually mixing with and becoming indistinguishable from interstellar gas.
That's what makes the trek out of Manhattan to see New York's more unusual sports worthwhile: mixing with and learning from the fans or the players waiting for the next match, who are just as passionate about their sports as you are about baseball or basketball or hockey.
Having spent much of his teenage life mixing with and playing against men in Macksville, a town 300 miles north of Sydney, he was immediately comfortable in my company and we chatted about life at Western Suburbs as we made our way along the M4 to Lord's.
These new religious cultures are mixing with and in some ways replacing older traditions, and providing Americans with a radically different set of conceptions and practices to make sense of death -- that most religious of human experiences -- in a meaningful way.
