Sentence examples for some ceremonial from inspiring English sources

As team captain, Iginla has many duties, some ceremonial.

He had only, he said, been referring to some ceremonial functions signing documents and so on.

Mr. Sires mapped out a busy week, signing bills and performing some ceremonial duties by attending "a couple of galas".

He antagonized the nobles by revoking the Valois pensions and some ceremonial trappings and by promoting the independence of seigneurial towns.

He begins with his own family and near relatives and friends, who provide goods that he, on behalf of his group, gives away to other groups at a feast on some ceremonial occasion.

Rather than composing some ceremonial equivalent of Pomp and Circumstance a more standard response Brahms crafted what he described as a "rollicking potpourri of student songs," in this case mostly drinking songs.

The young men are armed, some with ceremonial swords of little use, but others with combat knives and heavy-bladed hatchets.

A thumping, brassy battle scene that invites comparison with Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky is followed by some grand ceremonial music reminiscent of the end of Stravinsky's Firebird.

Mr Buthelezi's late capitulation in returm for some (largely ceremonial) constitutional powers for the Zulu king in Inkatha's home base of KwaZulu is good news for South Africa.

He had an axe and some blunt ceremonial swords.

Mugabe's repressive policies and economic mismanagement had wreaked havoc on the country, and at 93 years old he had lost the ability to perform even some basic ceremonial duties ― leading to bitter infighting over who would succeed him.