Another long-standing tradition is the playing of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries at 7: 00 each morning during finals week with the largest, loudest speakers available.

Throwing paper airplanes onto the stage is a long-standing tradition at the Ig Nobels.

Another long-standing tradition asserts that he was born in Yoshiwara, the courtesan district of Edo, being the son of a tea-house owner, but there is no evidence of this.

His knowledge of optics was connected to the handed-down long-standing tradition of the Kitab al-manazir ( The Optics ; De aspectibus ) of the Arab polymath Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041 ), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo ( similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo ).

When nominating judges to U. S. district courts, presidents often respect the long-standing tradition of Senatorial courtesy.

Nowadays, building on a long-standing tradition and a highly skilled labor force, main industries with potential of growth are following sectors: Automotive, Electronics, Mechanical engineering, Chemical engineering, Information technology.

Still, confusion may arise from this definition with the long-standing tradition in some fields of information technology and the computer industry of using binary prefix interpretations for memory sizes.

The long-standing Roman Catholic tradition of not eating meat on Fridays-especially during Lent-and of substituting fish for other types of meat on that day-continues to influence habits even in predominantly Protestant, semi-secular and secular societies.

By a long-standing tradition which has been observed consistently since the 81st Congress, the president pro tempore is the most senior senator in the majority party.

It is a long-standing tradition that an editor's only signed article during his tenure is written on the occasion of his departure from the position.

This was a significant change from the local law making at the regional assemblies () had been the long-standing tradition.

This restriction seems to have been dispensed for plans in the developing suburban area in the west of Utrecht ( Leidsche Rijn ) and a skyscraper of 262 metres in height has been proposed, challenging this long-standing tradition.

) Penguin Books have had a long-standing tradition of publishing crime novels in paperback editions with green covers and spines ( as opposed to the orange spines of mainstream literature ), thus attracting the eyes of potential buyers already when they enter the shop.

The town has retained its agricultural roots, a long-standing tradition in the region.

Long Beach High has a long-standing tradition of excellence.

The College most closely linked with the Hall was Balliol College, due to a long-standing tradition of sporting links, but Greyfriars students were tutored at a wide number of the University's colleges at some point or another.

The parade is perhaps regionally most famous for the long-standing tradition of enthusiasts placing chairs, benches, and beach chairs along the parade route to reserve their seats, sometimes a week or more ahead of the parade.

* A similar uncertainty attaches to the status in present-day Tridentine Masses of the long-standing tradition in Ireland for the priest to recite in Latin, together with the altar servers, the psalm De profundis immediately after Mass.

Louisianans began to add chicory root to their coffee when Union naval blockades during the American Civil War cut off the port of New Orleans, thereby creating a long-standing tradition.

He was one of the rare members of the party to be openly religious, thus challenging its long-standing secular tradition.

It has a long-standing tradition of retaining its alumni in Michigan to practice – more than two-thirds of the college ’ s graduates remain to practice in Michigan.

Pipe bands are a long-standing tradition in other areas with Celtic roots, such as the regions of Galicia, Asturies and Cantabria in Northern Spain and Brittany in Western France, as well as other regions with Celtic influence in other parts of Europe.

It's also a long-standing tradition in the British Commonwealth of Nations countries and former British colonies like the United States of America, Canada, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brunei, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

A long-standing popular musical tradition in Ethiopia was that of brass bands, imported from Jerusalem in the form of forty Armenian orphans ( Arba Lijoch ) during the reign of Haile Selassie.

It is a university town ( since 1990 ), a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the Palatinate wine region.

King had a long-standing concern with city planning and the development of the national capital, since he had been trained in the settlement house movement and envisioned town planning and garden cities as a component of his broader program of social reform.

There was a long-standing campaign to disband the town council.

The town is marked by independence, volunteerism, and a long-standing commitment to the arts.

The completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal through the town in 1847 brought a considerable amount of growth to the area, and ended ( in Attica's favor ) a long-standing rivalry with the neighboring communities of Rob Roy, Williamsport, and Covington, Indiana.

The town has a long-standing feud with Dendermonde ( situated north along the same river ), which dates back from the Middle Ages.

In mid-September, he and his associate, the radical former priest Heinrich Pfeiffer, took advantage of long-standing tensions between the middling craftsmen and city council to produce the Eleven Mühlhausen Articles, which called for the dissolution of the existing town council and the formation of an " eternal council " based on divine justice and the Word of God.

This imprecision often led to differing interpretations of the text resulting in long-standing disputes over the frontier zones – one gained a town or area and its ' dependencies ', but it was often unclear what these dependencies were.

The town has a long-standing connection with the military.

The census originally counted 9, 812 people within the town limits but an additional 13 were added when a long-standing annexation application was approved shortly after the census was conducted.

Due to the long-standing history of submarines in the town, and the fact that Groton has one of the largest submarine bases in the world, some people refer to Groton as the " Submarine Capital of the World ".

Boston, whose radical leaders thought it was under increasingly hostile threats by the royal government, set up the first long-standing committee with the approval of a town meeting in late 1772.

The team has a storied, long-standing rivalry with the Green Bay Packers, whom they have played 185 times.

This has addressed a long-standing concern about inconsistent developments of the same subject.

Despite its status as beneficiary of both the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) and the Generalized System of Preferences ( GSP )-- both of which confer duty free status on Honduran imports to the United States — Honduras has run a long-standing trade deficit with the United States.

English language has three non-finite verbal forms, but by long-standing convention, the term " infinitive " is applied to only one of these.

An Etruscan and Lydian connection has been a long-standing subject of conjecture.

Liverpool has long-standing rivalries with neighbours Everton and with Manchester United.

Al Said's extensive modernization program has opened the country to the outside world and has preserved a long-standing political and military relationship with the United Kingdom, the United States, and others.

However it has had long-standing close relations with its other neighbors Afghanistan, Iran and China, extensive security and economic interests in the Persian Gulf and wide-ranging bilateral relations with the United States and other Western countries.

Another, more psychological factor that has played a part here is that a long-standing mutual distrust or antipathy felt between former East Berliners and West Berliners ( Ossis and Wessis according to the well-known slang terms ), is still very much in evidence in the city and elsewhere in Germany, and bold civil engineering projects and architectural statements are not going to make it go away by themselves.

Although a long-standing member of the Arab League, Sudan has around 30 % non-Arab populations in the west ( Darfur, Masalit, Zaghawa ), far north ( Nubian ) and south ( Kordofan, Nuba ).

The International Academy of Astronautics ( IAA ) has a long-standing SETI Permanent Study Group ( SPSG, formerly called the IAA SETI Committee ), which addresses matters of SETI science, technology, and international policy.

Since the tertiary structure of proteins is an important problem in biochemistry, and since structure determination is relatively difficult, protein structure prediction has been a long-standing problem.

The Senate has a long-standing practice of permitting motions to reconsider previous decisions.

Because of the long-standing usage of the term " unobtainium " within the space elevator research community to describe a material with the necessary characteristics, LiftPort Group President Michael Laine has advocated assigning the term as the generic name for cables woven of carbon nanotube fibers, which seem to satisfy the requirements for this application.

Albion have a number of long-standing rivalries with other Midlands clubs ; their traditional rivals have always been Aston Villa, but more recently their major rivalry has been with Wolverhampton Wanderers, with whom they contest the Black Country derby.

Williams explained that the long-standing friction between himself and Gary has been resolved, and how close they now were.

The resistive wall mode has been a long-standing issue for the RFP, and has more recently been observed in tokamak experiments.

VAP maintains a long-standing commitment to ethnic and gender diversity ; it has been at the forefront of the movement toward a more socially engaged and theoretically informed aesthetic dialogue.

However, nowadays Agrigento is one of the poorest towns in Italy on a per capita income basis and has a long-standing problem with organised crime, particularly involving the Mafia and the smuggling of illegal drugs.

The position of the trogons within the class Aves has been a long-standing mystery.

To remedy this situation, and to increase his own income, Dudley effected compositions with the tenants in what Simon Adams has called an " ambitious resolution of a long-standing problem ... without parallel in Elizabeth's reign ".

This expertise has been built on a long-standing and varied research programme that has included the setting of workplace protection factors to the assessment of efficacy of masks available through high street retail outlets.