Sentence examples for rites from inspiring English sources

A play she co-wrote, Rites, about issues surrounding female genital mutilation is currently touring.

When there is a local tragedy – fishermen drowned at sea, teenagers killed in a bad road collision – the parish priest still speaks for the people, and organises the rites of passage.

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent (Picador) was my favourite of the 11 books recently shortlisted for the Guardian first book award.

Outside and we're past a sausage-seller and hot dog guy on the corner, their fading signs the same since 1988, their patter of hot-doggy-hot-doggy rippling through the wood-smoke like ancient rites, something like it.

Spero responded by insisting she was not out to universalise the female image but "to show differences in women, women's rites of passage [and]... woman as protagonist".

"A number of these old rites still survive and remain central to cultural practices throughout the region".

The Parsis who prefer cremation over the solar concentrators want only to be allowed last rites and prayers in this three-centuries' sanctified place of solace, even if in a segregated 'bungli'.

American evangelists draw huge crowds in Kenya, for example, and thrill them with lucrative displays of "faith healing .Your correspondent was not asked to heal the sick, but he was told to perform the last rites on one of those Congolese rebels' slain comrades.

Human Traffic director Kerrigan returns with a very different rites-of-passage story, starring Fuller as a young boy who is swept up by his charismatic father (Carlyle) into an exciting world of secrets and adventure.

Until the hero, Michel, who is a survivor of the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, takes out a bundle of fake passports and foreign currency from a secret alcove in the bathroom and goes to work.Mischa Hiller's debut, "Sabra Zoo", a chilling rites-of-passage novel set in Beirut in 1982 during the killings in the camps, was highly praised.

In Texas, Baylor University has four new black sororities, despite the efforts of predominantly white sororities to pull in members of the minorities.Hazing putting new recruits through often violent initiation rites has become less common since the rise of the lawsuit.