Sentence examples for ritual cost from inspiring English sources

The ritual cost the witnesses maybe $150,000, three quarters of which went to a brain health charity on behalf of the organisers, the rest reaching ticket touts smart enough to ask for and get as much as $800 a ticket.

They can work it off in the morning at one of eight private spa suites, where a "Symphony of Global Fusion" treatment, starting with a "Floral Foot Wash Ritual," costs $820 per couple.

The high ritual costs associated with Islam (fasting, daily prayer, abstinence from alcohol, etc).

A portion even goes to the waiter, thereby assuring the ritual stays cost-effective for years to come".

MIAMI — Hoping to earn the respect of his band mates, Robert Champion agreed to enter Bus C in an Orlando parking lot one evening last fall and walk to the back in a common but brutal Florida A & M University hazing ritual — one that cost him his life, according to documents released Wednesday by prosecutors.

The title refers to the kosher meat tax imposed on members of the Jewish community, ostensibly to cover the costs of ritual slaughter.

David Remnick wrote Sunday about Havel's life, which provided our most eloquent explanation of why totalitarianism must be total, why it depends, at bottom, not on the number of guns and tanks at the regime's disposal, but on the consistent denial of reality, on the mixture of fear and ritual that raise the costs for any one person to dare to acknowledge that the emperor wears nothing at all.

Religion was affected in a similarly indirect manner, insofar as wealth brought by the fur trade encouraged the more frequent transfer of medicine bundles and drove up the cost of gaining ritual knowledge.

I may have attained a personal triumph for completing the rituals but the economic, environmental and human cost is staggering.

The extensive menu of treatments includes a few new Nobu specials, including a Nagom I Ritual, which at $400 £2677) a go, could well cost more than your room.

Treatments: The 2-3 Discovercover the Rituals of the Orient Spa Packagee costs £207pp.