Comedians of this era often donned an ethnic persona — African, Scottish, German, Jewish — and built a routine based on popular stereotypes.

He often donned a red calico hunting shirt, which his men called his " battle shirt ," when a battle was about to commence, and the men under his command would pass the word, " Little Powell's got on his battle shirt!

During the Middle Ages, students admitted to European universities often held minor clerical status and donned garb similar to that worn by the clergy.

In the Reformed tradition, which stresses preaching as a central concern, pastors often donned preaching tabs, which projected from their clerical collar.

But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

Most avant-garde creators, true to their interest in the self-sufficiency of pure movement, have tended to dress their dancers in simple lines and solid colors ( often black ) and to give them a bare cyclorama for a setting.

Such characters, with their low existence and often low morality, produce humorous effects in his novels and tales, as they did in the writing of Longstreet and Hooper and Harris, but it need not be added that he gives them far subtler and more intricate functions than they had in the earlier writers ; ;

this was the form in which their private feud most often appeared in the Tory press, especially the Examiner.

By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

The terms `` renewal '' and `` refreshed '', which often come up in aesthetic discussion, seem partly to derive their import from the `` renewal '' of purpose and a `` refreshed '' sense of significance a person may receive from poetry, drama, and fiction.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

Rifle fire often kept the opposing gunners from manning their pieces.

Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.

With their facile generalizations about the United States, these mediocrities, as they often were, had been great successes.

In the fairly brief but hectic history of Florida, the developers of waterfront land have too often wound up with both their land and ours.

Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.

Customers often bring their children ; ;

They keep their wings and feet pressed tightly against their bodies, and in spite of their often colorful attire you may very well mistake them for lumps of dirt.

The females like to burrow in the short turf of well-kept lawns, where their little mounds of earth often appear by the hundreds.

and their members often equate a government career with security and status rather than with sacrifice, self-discipline, and competence.

In fact, they often revamped their social activities to include class members previously unknown.

In the tune to which this hymn is most often sung, `` Boylston '', the syllables have and fy, ending their lines, have twice the time any other syllables have.

Nevertheless, their conclusions and recommendations cannot please everybody, and they often represent a particular economic or political point of view.

Elaborations of tribal arbitration of feuds included peace settlements often done in a religious context and compensation system.

They are tribal, nomadic and often barbaric humanoids, with olive, tan, beige or ebony skin.

While the traditional members often resented the sale of tribal lands to Anglo-Americans, by the 1830s they agreed it was not possible to go to war with the colonists on this issue.

According to Jan Michiel Otto, Professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries at Leiden University, " Anthropological research shows that people in local communities often do not distinguish clearly whether and to what extent their norms and practices are based on local tradition, tribal custom, or religion.

While geophagy is most often seen in tribal and rural societies among children and pregnant women, it is practiced by members of all races, social classes, ages, and sexes.

Federal medical programs have not provided solutions for these problems within the population, and some tribal members have turned to traditional foods and traditional games to control the obesity that often leads to diabetes.

Under the history of U. S. treaty law, the territorial boundaries claimed by Federally recognized tribes received the same status under which the Southeastern tribal claims were recognized ; until the following establishment of reservations of land, determined by the Federal government, which were ceded to the remaining tribes by de jure treaty, in a process that often entailed forced relocation.

Compounding this was the fact that while citizenship tests existed for Native Americans living in newly annexed areas before and after forced relocation, individual U. S. states did not recognize tribal land claims, only individual title under State law, and distinguished between the rights of white and non-white citizens, who often had limited standing in court ; and Indian removal was carried out under U. S. military jurisdiction, often by state militias.

It is often used ceremonially, presented to tribal chiefs or presented to guests.

' In Roman times, this was situated in variously Celtic and Germanic territory, being West of the Rhine and subject under to various tribal groups often with mixed ethnic definitions.

They are generally not as fine or as expensive as either the Persian products or the Turkoman tribal rugs from further north, but they are generally more authentic than the copies of Turkoman and Persian designs often found in the major cities of Pakistan.

The players are then questioned by the host, who often provokes revealing details from them of events and interactions since the tribe's previous tribal council.

Since the late twentieth century, both the state and the United States have improved respect of indigenous rights and tribal sovereignty, but conflicts between the Tongva and the rapidly expanding population of Los Angeles have often required resolution in the courts.

He also described that in the first decades of usage, the term ethnicity had often been used in lieu of older terms such as " cultural " or " tribal " when referring to smaller groups with shared cultural systems and shared heritage, but that " ethnicity " had the added value of being able to describe the commonalities between systems of group identity in both tribal and modern societies.

Cohen also suggested that claims concerning " ethnic " identity ( like earlier claims concerning " tribal " identity ) are often colonialist practices and effects of the relations between colonized peoples and nation-states.

The economic disadvantage to which the tribal people are now subject is often ascribed to the Maratha conquest of the region in the 18th century, followed by the British imposition of the permanent settlement in the 19th century.

The elected tribal governments on the New York and Canadian sides and the traditional chiefs of Akwesasne often work together as a " Tri-Council " concerning areas of shared interest, for example to negotiate land claims settlements.

When hunters were away, they would often stumble into the tribal lands of other tribes, and be subject to death for the offense.

Traditional worship practices are often a part of tribal gatherings with dance, rhythm, songs and trance.

During the so-called Buffalo Wars ( about 1850-1870 ) they penetrated further and further into the territory from the Niitsitapi Confederacy in search for the buffalo, so that the Piegan were forced to evade in the region of the Missouri River ( in Cree: Pikano Sipi-" Muddy River ", " Muddy, turbid River "), the Kainai ( in Cree: Miko-Ew-" stained with blood ", i. e. " the bloodthirsty, cruel ", therefore, in English often referred to as Blood ) withdraw to the Bow River and Belly River, only the Siksika could hold their tribal lands along the Red Deer River.

Local non-mamluk warriors were often more loyal to their tribal sheikhs, their families, or nobles than to the sultan or caliph.

The Alawi peasant was in-tensely individualistic and his allegiance was claimed by distinct spiritual and tribal leaders and often by a landlord as well.