Sentence examples for put on traditional from inspiring English sources

The runners had put on traditional Amhara clothing for the occasion and didn't seem concerned.

The policy could help reduce the strain that rising demand has put on traditional sources of electricity, and give an important boost to fledgling industries including the makers of fuel cells, which generate electricity from fossil fuels, like natural gas, without combustion or air pollution.

Basketball and freestyle wrestling are widely practiced, the latter in a form in which the wrestlers put on traditional animal hides and cover themselves with dust.

Unable to return to their family places, many Korean-Americans gather with extended family here; some put on traditional dress and enact a long-distance version of ancestor veneration.

Perhaps if he thought more deeply about his comments he might consider the impact of HRH ringing theatre directors suggesting that instead of Stoppard's modern junk, what about putting on "traditional" plays instead – more Shakespeare, Sheridan and perhaps the odd Rattigan?

As they watched, Judge Lynch took the oath (again) and put on the traditional black robe.

"A lot of things are not things that you would put on a traditional Web site.

When the television crew arrived, Syrnikov put on a traditional embroidered linen peasant shirt that he tends to wear on such occasions, and explained the intricacies of preparing malt and distilling it into samogon.

"'Everybody was trying everything possible to put on a traditional season," he said, "but to put on another season would have eliminated any credibility the board would have with funders and would have closed down the theater completely".

But in Ridgefield Park, N.J., home of the state's oldest Fourth of July celebration, village leaders decided this year that because of the exceptionally bleak economic outlook, they could not afford to put on their traditional show, which costs about $50,000.

In the course of the research for my book I tracked down the former South African President's schoolboy contemporaries who put on a traditional Xhosa rural feast for me.