Sentence examples for rituals surrounding from inspiring English sources

So were the rituals surrounding death.

Much of the story concerns the rituals surrounding death in India.

Writer tells about rice and how it grows, and describes various myths and rituals surrounding it.

"So all of the rituals surrounding the funeral of a cardinal are very reminiscent of these ancient, older allusions".

But with the awe there also came suspicion, especially when the westerners observed the rituals surrounding the Greek emperors.

4. Newspapers ran Arabic greetings on their front pages and explained Muslim rituals surrounding praying and funerals.

Sierra Leone farmers see rice genetic resources as an "ancestral blessing" (Richards 1996), while complex rituals surround the cultivation of O. glaberrima in Eastern Ghana (Brydon 1981).

In addition, human sacrifice was also part of the ritual surrounding tlachtli.

For example, Tonga shares with Fiji, Samoa, and parts of French Polynesia the elaborate ritual surrounding the drinking of kava.

She was fascinated by the ritual surrounding opium smoking, but at first she was disappointed that its effects were not more dramatic.

The elaborate ritual surrounding the Praemium Imperiale, which this year will go to Richard Serra, Zao Wou-ki, Henri Dutilleux, Charles Correa and Sir John Gielgud (whose health will prevent him from attending the ceremony), underscores the extent to which prizes in the arts have become a matter of corporate prestige and international diplomacy, not to mention big dollars.