Baseball, traditionally, gives the edge to the pitcher.
Labor traditionally gives its nationalism a slightly different tinge to that favoured by the conservatives.
The sustained nastiness of a presidential nominating contest traditionally gives way, eventually, to a finer-tuned, more upbeat message in the general election.
Every current member of the Senate judiciary committee who was a senator in 2001 voted against Olson, including Russ Feingold, who traditionally gives presidential nominations great forbearance.
For Mr. Obama, the potential political fallout "is going to be aggravated by the fact that the president traditionally gives a humorous speech," said Martha Kumar, a political science professor at Towson University.
The union traditionally gives its local leaders several hours' notice before a strike, and even then a walkout can be called off before midnight if there is a tentative agreement.
As Frosch, the drunken jailor, a role that traditionally gives license for egregious overacting, Mr. Schenk has the audience howling with laughter -- bringing to mind the laugh track on a sitcom rerun.
The winner of the Nobel prize in literature traditionally gives a lecture in Stockholm before accepting the award, but Munro joins a string of past winners unable to attend for health reasons.
