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Flower arrangement is a traditional art in Japan.
It was a very traditional ceremony.
It is traditional to wear black to a funeral.
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom the harder it is to get rid of it.
The traditional American dinner includes meat, potatoes and a vegetable.
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I prefer traditional characters. Due to the abundance of reading materials in simplified characters, I can recognize many of them too.
Do you do double-entry accounting or traditional governmental accounting?
Tibetan rug weavers use traditional designs and knotting. Hence their rugs have a simple, natural look.
Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish.
This ingredient is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
I bake traditional cakes.
We bake traditional bread.
I like to cook traditional dishes.
As a writer, she does not fit into any of the traditional categories.
When we think of the traditional roles of men and women in society, we think of husbands supporting the family, and wives taking care of the house and children.
What is especially important is the observation of the traditional values.
Their traditional life style no longer exists.
This e-zine is for those who, unswayed by the cajolery of the modern language industry, firmly trust that the traditional learning method of grammatical analysis is the way to go.
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
Sumo is a traditional Japanese sport.
He's a painter, but he doesn't do traditional Chinese painting.
How come pumpkins are traditional on Halloween?
It is an ancient, popular and traditional festival.
I cannot write traditional characters, but I am fine reading them.
Movie subtitles
Pairs perfectly with this 2010 Chianti Classico, an old-world Sangiovese, aged in traditional botti.
Do I look like a traditional Santa?
I have finally discovered my ancestors' traditional dance.
I've discovered the Charleston, that traditional White dance and I've decided to learn it!
Is it traditional?
The few are those men of such intellectual and cultural superiority that they're above the traditional moral concepts.
Sir, the traditional singers would like to sing.
The regimental singers would like to sing a traditional song for himself.
The figure of Joan of Arc is a traditional exhibit in wax museums.
With traditional thoroughness, the Navy plan was to cut the South Pacific into squares and search each square.
It was the eve of the annual 6-metre yacht races, and, as had been traditional on Long Island for the past 30 years, the Larrabees were giving a party.
You are too senseless-obstinate, my lord. too ceremonious and traditional.
It's an interesting fusion of traditional and progressive.
That's the traditional Hawaiian way of announcing that chow's on.
Your title to traditional tribal lands will be recognized.
We start at sunrise, the traditional hour.
However, her majesty's government is determined to obey her traditional politics' rules to serve the European moral and to strengthen the kingdom's power.
Before Chaang, the traditional New Year's beer is drunk, the ritual demands us to offer our drinks to the spirits of the region.
And now we come to the folk song, or traditional type of melody.
He says it's traditional in the colony.
It was the eve of the annual six-metre-yacht races and, as had been traditional for the past 30 years, the Larrabees were giving a party.
I take this opportunity to tell you, the traditional word, sir.
The traditional Thanksgiving song?
At birth, each Monegasque finds in his crib. the traditional croupier's black rake.
Given the traditional rake mentioned earlier. 6 months later I was hired as a croupier at table 4. convinced I'd lead an honest life. because a croupier can't cheat at roulette.
It's the traditional thing.
Traditional candy.
We shall adhere strictly to the traditional ways.
My dear, although we've done everything that modern science recommends, there is still the traditional folk remedy against snakebite, which we haven't tried.
I admit I came to Paris to escape American provincial. but that doesn't mean I'm ready for French traditional. I loathe the whole idea of divorce, Sylvie.
At any rate, it's traditional.
There was talk about our being underhanded, secret. So we're holding the trial in the traditional way of our ancestors outdoors in the open.
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In particular, the rise of emerging markets has challenged traditional Western deductive and inductive logic.
We could all be morally better, but it is clear that this traditional approach cannot take us much further.
Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.
This would make government services more effective, while helping to catalyze additional development aid from traditional donors and mobilize private-sector resources.
That traditional solution would only perpetuate the problems of the Balkans.
When they are high, they are apt to crowd out investments in manufactures and other, non-traditional tradables.
Once, I heard a dreadful story of a breech birth which a traditional midwife did not know how to handle.
Does diversity authorize such brutal deaths and senseless violence against women simply because some supposedly traditional practice allows them to be married before their bodies are ready and denies them health care when they give birth?
In traditional Western European markets, health officials should brace for a rise in the number of deaths from drug overdoses, as this year's bumper opium crop will lead to higher-purity doses of heroin.
They see new players (say, Spain) rising to shape EU policy, particularly foreign policy, and sense that their traditional leadership is being challenged.
By contrast, rebelling against one's parents' generation and rediscovering traditional moral stances will save France - a message that is highly applicable to issues, such as education and immigration, that may dominate the electoral campaign.
The revival of traditional foods has attracted the attention of large multinational corporations.
An effective strategy must accomplish two tasks: encourage investment in non-traditional areas, and weed out projects and investments that fail.
But, beyond slogans, there is an underlying fault line between those who have the cultural capacity to embrace change and those who resist it by adhering to traditional ideas about how one's life and, by extension, society, should be organized.
They were not discouraged by his ambivalent perception of them (by turns celebrating their traditional domesticity and glorifying their sexual objectification).
Their appetite for change - understandable, given the treatment of women in traditional Muslim societies - appears to be one of the main causes underlying the force of the revolutionary impulse in Tunisia and Egypt.
The core theory with which emerging feminists in more traditional and religious societies are working is far different from that of Western feminism - and in some ways far more profound and humane.
Even though Muslim practice is strong in Africa, there is widespread incorporation of traditional African rituals in ceremonies like weddings and funerals.
Finally, Baker was appealing to America's traditional allies in Europe and the Middle East, who need American friendship in many areas.
Financing adaptation to climate will be a formidable challenge, particularly as it involves additional costs above traditional development assistance - at a time when foreign-aid budgets are under pressure.
In Zambia, for example, Sylva Banda ignited a craze for authentic traditional meals two decades ago with a chain of popular restaurants.
Alas, there is an added complication that makes today's shocks all the more vexing: governments and central banks have exhausted the traditional ammunition upon which they have long relied during times of economic duress.