In addition to following Corinthian models, Athens vases also showed local innovations.

In the process he writes at length about many related matters: the importance of race, religion, local tradition, bosses, organizations, zealous volunteers and television.

The old oracles in Delphi seem to be connected with a local tradition of the priesthood, and there is not clear evidence that a kind of inspiration-prophecy existed in the temple.

This led some scholars to the conclusion that Pythia carried on the rituals in a consistent procedure through many centuries, according to the local tradition.

In northern New Mexico, the local " black on white " tradition, the Rio Grande white wares, continued well after 1300 CE.

Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.

The Macao, a lemur found only on Mahoré, is protected by French law and by local tradition.

Depending on local circumstances and tradition they may be powered either by diesel engines located below the passenger compartment ( diesel multiple units ) or by electricity picked up from third rails or overhead lines ( electric multiple units ).

The lake is the subject of local folklore ; a tradition at Wells College in Aurora holds that if the lake completely freezes over, classes are canceled ( though for only one day ).

This has direct implications for the way in which the re-occupiers perhaps viewed crannogs as a legacy that remained alive in local tradition and memory.

In many countries, drinking alcoholic beverages in a local bar or pub is a cultural tradition.

The anecdotes are literary, and late ; however, in the founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela, founded in the 680s on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani.

It is possible the tradition was carried on by the local community after the travellers had left, or that long term trade led to the blurring of cultures.

This account of foot washing might refer to a local tradition by which foot washing served as a Christian initiation ritual rather than baptism.

By local tradition, this commemorates the date the news of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots reached Geneva.

This represented a radical departure from German tradition, which held that law enforcement was ( mostly ) a Land ( state ) and local matter.

By 8500-7500 BC the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) culture developed out of the earlier local tradition of Natufian in Southern Palestine, dwelling in round houses, and building the first defensive site at Jericho ( guarding a valuable fresh water spring ).

The capital Rarotonga, is believed from local oral tradition, to have been the launching site of waka ship voyagers who originally settled in New Zealand.

Despite this, the tradition of most Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogues is to use Hebrew ( usually Ashkenazi Hebrew ) for all except a small number of prayers, including the Kaddish, which had always been in Aramaic, and sermons and instructions, for which the local language is used.

According to one local tradition, the Sabahs migrated south to flee drought in Najd in 1710, but found conditions bleaker.

One tradition has it that political preeminence went to the Sabahs as part of an explicit agreement in 1716, the heads of the al-Khalifa, al-Sabah, and al-Jalahima agreed to give the Sabahs preeminence in government and military affairs, subject to consultation, while the Khalifas controlled local commerce and the Jalahima maritime affairs.

Since the terms are administrative political subdivisions of the local regional government their exact relationship and definitions are subject to home rule considerations, tradition, as well as state statute law and local governmental ( administrative ) definition and control.

Under the rule of this prelate, the townspeople rebelled, headed by the local council, beginning a secular tradition of confrontation of the people of the city — who fought for self-government — with the local bishop, the secular and jurisdictional lord of the city and of its fief, the semi-independent Terra de Santiago (' Land of Saint James ').

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.

The owner of a local fish market, Peter Cusimano, threw one from the stands onto the ice.

The local Portuguese bar called ' The Volunteer ', since closed down, was attacked by native youths, who threw missiles, smashed windows and were in possession of petrol bombs.

Among the officials who threw in their fate with him during the campaigns for the recovery of national independence and for the elimination of the self-appointed local nobles were two personalities who subsequently played exceptionally important roles in Thai history.

Only a few of the twenty-four thousand Japanese defenders on the island were captured ; large numbers of local civilians threw themselves and their children off high cliffs rather than be captured.

As he began digging, he threw up huge lumps of earth, each of which became a local landmark — such as Chanctonbury Ring, Cissbury Ring, Mount Caburn and Rackham Hill.

Standing on a mound in the heath is the 400 tonne, 17 ft ( 5. 2 m ) high Agglestone Rock ; the local myth states that the devil threw it there from the Isle of Wight.

To help relieve the tension, Peckinpah and the producers bought out a local bar and threw a surprise party.

On one occasion he netted and threw in the river a local farmer who objected to his fishing on his property.

" plank ") is from a folk story in which a local king threw his newborn daughter into the sea to protect her from his enemies.

Unlike the East Indies voyage, this was ( according to Hakluyt's account ) highly professional in its conduct and very successful ; after picking up a chance-met separate squadron under Captain Middleton, he led an assault landing, seized the town and ( with the assistance of a flotilla of Dutch traders who also threw in their lot with him ) held it for several weeks and embarked the carrack's cargo along with local produce such as Brazil-wood ( the source of a valuable red dye used in the woolen textile industry ).

All of the local next-day San Francisco sources agree that Ruhlin's manager, Billy Madden, threw in the towel to retire Gus during the one-minute interval between the fifth and sixth rounds.

One legend has it that a corrupt Buddhist priest from, a local temple, so enraged the populace that they dragged him from the temple to the sea and, at Tōjinbō, threw the priest into the sea.

Al-Bayoumi then moved in across the street from them and assisted them in other not-so minor ways: he helped open a bank account, obtain car insurance, get Social Security cards and call flight schools in Florida — and also threw a welcoming party for the hijackers, during which he introduced them to the local Muslim community.

Mr Daly, the Chief Sanitary Inspector for the local council, tried to prosecute him but the magistrates threw out the case on the grounds that a goldfish was not an article.

In 1556 local Protestants attacked the monastery, killed the monks and threw the body of St. John Capistrano into a well.

" The local chapter of the NAACP threw its support behind her Republican opponent, Joe Harrison, who won the November 17, 2007 run-off election.

The New York Times reported that about 1, 000 Orthodox Christian Serbs participated in the attack and that they threw rocks and burned vehicles, a bakery, Muslim prayer rugs, and the flag on the Islamic center, where they hoisted the Bosnian Serb flag ; drove a pig onto the site of the mosque as an insult to Muslims ; and trapped 250 people in the Islamic center including the head of the UN in Bosnia, the ambassadors from Great Britain, Sweden and Pakistan, and other international and local officials.

A popular local MP, he did instruct Prime Minister Clement Attlee to " Change the bloody record " as he threw a coin at him — an incident which had him briefly debarred from the Commons.

He threw himself into the ferment of Bavaria's völkisch politics and formed a close working relationship with the local Germanenorden before devoting himself to literary pursuits.

The British forces threw the dead and wounded IRA men into the street outside the Police barracks in nearby Westport, causing widespread revulsion among the local people .#

And it threw a shadow over the behaviour of local government and other public bodies .”

A local judge threw out the charges, saying the organizers had broken no laws.

Following the same pattern, Đokić again threw funds at the top people from local cinematography and attracted by his money numerous Serbian film and music industry people ( including Dragojević, Branka Katić, Nebojša Bakočević, Rambo Amadeus, etc.