The majority of the Dogon women practice a class 2 circumcision, meaning that both the clitoris and the labia minora are removed.

Among the majority of professional firearms instructors, this practice is dismissed as extremely ineffective.

The majority of the population in Kalimantan is either Muslim or practice animism.

As with other learned professions, each state has certain ( fairly similar ) requirements for becoming licensed as a registered Professional Engineer ( PE ), but in practice such a license is not required to practice in the majority of situations ( due to an exception known as the private industry exemption, which effectively applies to the vast majority of American engineers ).

) The one major exception to this in practice is the axiom of choice — unless studying this axiom in particular, the majority of researchers do not usually worry whether a result requires the axiom of choice.

During the first years in power, under Lenin's rule, the Central Committee was the key decision-making body in both practice and theory, and decisions were made through majority votes.

The vast majority of Christian nations and groups have not adopted this theology, nor have they followed it in practice.

During that period counties followed the traditional practice of requiring all decisions be made by at least twelve of the grand jurors, ( e. g., for a twenty-three-person grand jury, twelve people would constitute a bare majority ).

In France, while the President cannot force the Prime Minister to tender the resignation of his government, he can, in practice, request it if the Prime Minister is from his own majority.

The majority of Protestant denominations further maintain that veneration of saints involves an act of essential worship dissonant with Christian salvation, holding that philosophical distinctions between dulia and latria are indistinguishable in practice.

Enforcement of insider trading laws varies widely from country to country, but the vast majority of jurisdictions now outlaw the practice, at least in principle.

Urbanized areas of Kyrgyzstan are similar to the United States in terms of religious identity ; while most Americans claim to be Christian, the majority are rather eclectic in practice.

The majority of Native American tribes did practice some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America, but none exploited slave labor on a large scale.

However, notaries public in the U. S., of which the vast majority are lay people, require only a brief training seminar and are expressly forbidden to engage in any activities that could be construed as the practice of law unless they are also qualified attorneys.

Despite this, the majority of the population still live in traditional societies and practice subsistence-based agriculture.

In practice, however, a Government with a strong majority need rarely fear " backbench rebellions ".

In modern practice, when the Government party has an absolute majority in the House, only the express vote " that this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government " is treated as having this effect ; dissentients on a minor issue within the majority party are unlikely to force an election with the probable loss of their seats and salaries, and any future in the party.

In practice, under the conventions of the Westminster System followed in Queensland, the Premier's power is derived from two sources: command of a majority in the Legislative Assembly, and the Premier's role as chair of Cabinet, determining the appointment and roles of Ministers.

In practice this would normally mean the leader of the majority party or coalition.

While the majority of trafficking victims are women, and sometimes children, who are forced into prostitution ( in which case the practice is called sex trafficking ), victims also include men, women and children who are forced into manual labour.

The vast majority of people in Japan who take part in Shinto rituals also practice Buddhist rituals.

This is as contrasted with typical practice, where a proposition passes, or not, based on whether it receives the appropriate majority of however many votes were cast, irrespective of how many members were present but chose not to vote.

Although some Derung have converted to Christianity, the vast majority continue to believe in their animist native religion.

Resistant to first Islam and later Christianity, many Jola retain a degree of animist practices, while Basse Casamance is the only majority Catholic area in Senegal.

Bali retained a Hindu majority and the eastern islands remained largely animist until adopting Islam and Christianity in the 17th and 18th centuries.

In religion, the majority follow Roman Catholic Christianity.

While they had the same skin color and religion as the majority, in the Churches, they had to use segregated doors, drink from segregated fonts, receive communion on the end of long wooden spoons.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

Iraq and Sudan are connected by remote cultural similarities such as language ( both countries speak Arabic, though the two are different in dialect ) and religion, both are Muslim ( however Sudan is predominantly Sunni, while the majority of Iraq is Shia ).

He saw himself as doing Allah's bidding, yet he was inquisitive enough to explore new ideas about religion, intelligent enough to understand that Hindus were in the majority and grand enough in his pretensions not to need to obey every line of the Qur ' an.

The media are often accused of bias favoring the majority religion, or attacking the majority religion.

In the most recent census in Mongolia, almost forty percent of the population reported as being atheist, while the majority religion was Buddhism, with 53 %.

The operation was originally called " Operation Infinite Justice " ( often misquoted as " Operation Ultimate Justice "), but as similar phrases have been used by adherents of several religions as an exclusive description of God, it is believed to have been changed to avoid offense to Muslims, who are the majority religion in Afghanistan.

There are frequent exceptions to this however, and many priests rarely if ever go out in public without it, especially in countries where their religion makes up a clear majority of the population.

Catholicism was the majority religion in various pockets, notably in parts of Lancashire and Cumbria, and, in Scotland, in parts of the Highlands and the southern Hebrides ( i. e. South Uist, Benbecula, Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay ).

However, the amendment of certain basic features such as the clauses on language, religion, and reference to Sri Lanka as a unitary state require both a two-thirds majority and approval at a nation-wide referendum.

Mahayana Buddhism is the first religion in Singapore though not representing a majority, with significant numbers following Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism or no religion at all.

Iraq and Sudan are connected by remote cultural similarities such as language ( both countries speak Arabic, though the two are different in dialect ) and religion, both are Muslim ( however Sudan is predominantly Sunni, while the majority of Iraq is Shia ).

The Court ruled 5-4 to let the tax credit program stand In April 2011, a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll found that a majority of American voters ( 60 %) felt that the tax credits support school choice for parents whereas 26 % felt as it the tax credits support religion.

The study concluded that the majority of undergraduates in both the natural and social sciences do not see conflict between science and religion.

Also in 1979, in the first revised edition of " Real Magic ", Bonewits defined " thealogy " in his Glossary as " Intellectual speculations concerning the nature of the Goddess and Her relations to the world in general and humans in particular ; rational explanations of religious doctrines, practices and beliefs, which may or may not bear any connection to any religion as actually conceived and practiced by the majority of its members.

In the Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet,, Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that " government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion.

The conversion of Clovis to Catholic Christianity, the religion of the majority of his subjects, strengthened the bonds between his Gallo-roman subjects, led by their Catholic bishops, and their Germanic conquerors.

The majority Catholic Philippines is the last officially secular country that does not have civil divorce for the whole population ; Muslims, however, are granted divorce rights as per their religion.

The vast majority of Baylor staff did not know of the center's existence until its website went online, and the center stood outside of the existing religion, science, and philosophy departments.