Among the Bemba of Zambia, in the initiation ritual (Cisungu) young girls perform a ceremony where girls pass ceremonial beads or twigs from girl to girl using their mouths (Richards, 1956, p 72; Maxwell, 1983).
Do you not think we'd all learn a little bit of discipline?" But Hopkins' military career came to an abrupt end days before the passing out ceremony.
A passing out ceremony for new police officers was struck, killing around 40 cadets.
22 10 As "Blue" ends, Alex is inducted as the team's new captain with a gag-inducing cup-passing ceremony.
Cardinal Egan, if he is able, would be the first New York archbishop since the mid-19th century to attend such a torch-passing ceremony.
Why would we allow the death of a loved one to pass without ceremony?
To beat the gun lobby at its own game, Everytown is taking on state and local legislatures in which laws expanding gun rights would otherwise pass without ceremony, bringing national attention to these bills with the help of gun-violence survivors and a slick celebrity campaign featuring Julianne Moore and Aziz Ansari.
It will then move through past the Kelpies and finish in Bo'ness where a formal ceremony passing the baton over to Clackmannanshire will take place.
As celebrities seem to get thinner with every passing awards ceremony, and models are literally dropping dead of malnourishment - one model who weighed less than six stone died in August, and another collapsed on the catwalk recently from heart failure - someone in the industry (as opposed to simply outraged parents, teachers and journalists) was going to have to take a stand at some point.
This year, Jodie Foster made her first public acknowledgment of her sexuality in passing at an awards ceremony, Ben Whishaw matter-of-factly confirmed he was in a same-sex civil partnership, and TV actor Wentworth Miller came out in the context of declining an invitation to a Russian film festival.
