Old traditions such as bonfires are no longer widely observed, though the practice still persists in some communities, such as Arklow, County Wicklow.

Although sati, or the practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband ’ s funeral pyre, was officially outlawed by India ’ s British rulers in 1829, the rite persists.

It is the main tantric practice for the Jonang school, which persists to this day with a small number of monasteries in eastern Tibet.

This practice persists because some customers will pay more for a first edition in a later jacket than they would for a jacketless copy.

While some now use winches and cattle trucks to lift and transport these stones, and others construct them out of cement, the practice of hauling slabs of rock weighing up to 70 tons atop log rollers across the countryside by hand persists in some eastern parts of the island.

The practice of untouchability was banned by law when India gained independence, but the tradition widely persists as the law is difficult to enforce.

It is seen largely as a novelty game in the inland counties ( and, debatably, the beach counties as well ), but still persists as a physical education activity at local high schools, and most visibly in the practice of an annual tournament held on Fiesta Island.

The practice has been a custom in 28 countries of Africa, and persists mainly in rural areas.

Students in the lower grades continued to be all-male, a practice which persists to this day.

The ancient practice of brewing Juleøl ( Christmas beer ) persists even today, and imitations of these are available before Christmas, in shops and, for the more potent versions, at state monopoly outlets.

Historians apply a similar idea when they study the development of organizations, institutions, traditions, and cultures across long intervals of time: a " traditional " practice persists though its original intention is lost or forgotten, because it has gained a new context and purpose.

( The Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus ), Nichiren added to the title the word Namu ( devotion to ), and declared on 28 April 1253, the chanting of the phrase Nam ( u ) Myoho Renge Kyo as his basic practice for revealing one ’ s Buddha nature in daily life.

This involves complete withdrawal of food ( and sometimes water ) for 7 – 14 days or sufficiently long to cause a body weight loss of 25 to 35 %, or up to 28 days under experimental conditions which presumably reflect farming practice.

On October 28, 2011, the leaders of all 16 Commonwealth realms agreed to end the practice of male primogeniture regarding heirs to the throne.

For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord ;" and Exodus 22: 18 prescribes " thou shalt not suffer a witch to live "; tales like that of 1 Samuel 28, reporting how Saul " hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land " suggest that in practice sorcery could at least lead to exile.

Maxentius of course had consulted soothsayers before battle, as was customary practice, and it can be assumed that they reported favourable omens, especially as the day of battle would be his dies imperii, the day of his accession to the throne ( which was October 28, 306 ).

In Japan, most dojos have roughly the same layout ; an entrance, a large dojo area, typically with a wooden floor and a high ceiling, a position for practice targets ( Called " makiwara "), and a large open wall with sliding doors, which, when opened, overlooks an open grassy area and a separate building, the matoba which houses a dirt hillock and the targets, placed 28 meters from the dojo floor.

Sir Peter Brian Medawar, OM CBE FRS ( 28 February 1915 – 2 October 1987 ) was a British biologist, whose work on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance was fundamental to the practice of tissue and organ transplants.

When he retired from golf at age 28, he concentrated on his Atlanta law practice.

In practice, the person most eligible may decline the office, as was the case between 2001 and 2004, when Mahendra Chaudhry, whose Labour Party holds 28 of the 30 Opposition seats in the House of Representatives, adamantly refused to accept the position of Leader of the Opposition, insisting that he and his party wanted representation in the Cabinet instead.

In the event, the Brown government maintained the limit on detention without charge at 28 days ( although in practice a 14-day limit was observed ).

After leaving the Cabinet he resumed the practice of law until he was again elected, as a Whig, to the U. S. Senate and served from March 4, 1841, until May 1845, when he again resigned to accept an appointment to the supreme court of Georgia ; again elected in 1845 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by his second resignation ; reelected in 1846 and served from November 13, 1845, until May 28, 1852, when he resigned for the third time.

The Belgian law of June 28, 1932 on the use of languages for administrative matters based the language status of every Belgian municipality on the decennial census that included, since 1846, several language questions about the knowledge as well as the day-to-day practice.

On the day after the first practice assaults, early on the morning of 28 April, the exercise was blighted when a convoy of follow-up troops was attacked by nine German E-boats in Lyme Bay.

On February 28, 2011, Biron fractured his collarbone during practice, and was forced to miss the remainder of the 2010 – 2011 season.

The election court reported Hendron personally guilty of the illegal practice of failing to deliver a declaration verifying the return of his election expenses, and guilty through his election agent of failing to deliver a verified return of election expenses within 35 days, exceeding the maximum spending by £ 782. 02, and failing to pay all the expenses within 28 days.

He returned to private practice until his death in Philadelphia on January 28, 1874.

He was born in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, March 28, 1890 ; attended the public schools, Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, and the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington ; was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Brownsville, Ky .; county judge of Edmonson County, Ky., 1916-1918.

According to the strip of January 15, 2003, he is an attorney, and in the strips of May 28 – 29, 2007, it is indicated he has a practice and has spent twenty years representing personal injury cases.

File: US Navy 071105-N-7027P-667 Marines attached to 4th Platoon, 2nd Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team ( FAST ), practice fast roping out of a MH-60S Seahawk, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron ( HSC ) 28, during a crisis respo. jpg | Troop insertion practice, viewed from the air.

File: US Navy 071105-N-7027P-352 Marines attached to 4th Platoon, 2nd Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team ( FAST ), practice fast roping out of a MH-60S Seahawk, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron ( HSC ) 28, during a crisis respo. jpg | Troop insertion practice, viewed from the ground.

Although soft dollar transactions have incurred a lot of scrutiny lately, the practice is still allowed Under Section 28 ( e ) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, soft dollars are regulated by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Whilst in Australia, Alley was also a middleweight boxer, and was undefeated in 28 contests when he was forced to give it up after being hit on the head in the nets at cricket practice.

If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a formal or ritual and often social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine ; while fortune-telling is a more everyday practice for personal purposes.

Rahman and Toubia write that African women from several countries at the conference led a vote to end the practice.

Mather, a prominent Boston minister, had heard a description of the African practice of inoculation from his Sudanese slave, Onesimus, in 1706, but had been previously unable to convince local physicians to attempt the procedure.

She claims jumping over the broom was definitely a feature in both European and African wedding ceremonies, but believes that the slave practice likely originated in Africa and not Europe.

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.

The practice at all the Mediterranean lazarets was not different from the English procedure in the Levantine and North African trade.

The NCNW produced its first cookbook, The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, in 1958, and revived the practice in 1993, producing a popular series of cookbooks featuring recipes by famous African Americans, among them: The Black Family Reunion Cookbook ( 1991 ), Celebrating Our Mothers ' Kitchens: Treasured Memories and Tested Recipes ( 1994 ), and Mother Africa's Table: A Chronicle of Celebration ( 1998 ).

In practice, the failure of African archaeologists either to keep this distinction in mind, or to explain which one they mean, contributes to the considerable equivocation already present in the literature.

This reform was the first of its kind on the African continent actually put into practice, and allows investors to concentrate on their area of expertise ( i. e. network operation or service provision ) across a maximum number of previously separate sectors ( i. e. telecommunications, broadcasting, Internet ).

In Haitian Vodou and related African diasporic traditions, one way that those who participate or practice can have a spiritual experience is by being possessed by the lwa ( or Loa ).

However, some African groups proved particularly adept and brutal at the practice of enslaving such as Oyo, Benin, Igala, Kaabu, Asanteman, Dahomey, the Aro Confederacy and the Imbangala war bands.

coined the term " cafeteria principle " to refer to the practice of arbitrarily attributing features of creoles to the influence of substrate African languages or assorted substandard dialects of European languages.

In the African American community, where many people practice a form of folk magic called hoodoo or rootworking, a fortune telling session or " reading " for a client may be followed by practical guidance in spell-casting and Christian prayer, through a process called " magical coaching ".

" Specifically, Congress intended the Act to outlaw the practice of requiring otherwise qualified voters to pass literacy tests in order to register to vote, a principal means by which Southern states had prevented African Americans from exercising the franchise.

In the twentieth century, those with any degree of sub-Saharan African ancestry ( which was virtually everyone who had been defined as coloured ) were redefined as Black, with Asian and other non-White Bermudians defined by separate racial groups ( although it also, in that century, ceased to be the practice to record race on birth or other records ).

Warren told his colleagues after oral argument that he believed racial segregation violated the Constitution and that only if one considered African Americans inferior to whites could the practice be upheld.

In African oral chant from Bening, Agassou is depicted as the chosen one sent to Haiti by Ayida Wedo to bring the practice to her African children to ease their pain and sufferings from SLAVERY.

There was tremendous controversy when the practice was endorsed by Winnie Mandela, then the wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and a senior member of the African National Congress.

Devoting a year to Torah study in the modern Land of Israel is a common practice among American, and, to a lesser extent, European, South African, South American, and Australian Modern Orthodox Jews.

On the West African coast they set up Zāwiyas on the shores of the river Niger and even established independent kingdoms such as al-Murābiṭūn or Almoravids. The Al Hakika Mizaan Mizaani Sufi Order deals with heavy internalization and meditations, their spiritual practice is called Al Qudra MizaanStates ) The Sanusi order were also highly involved in missionary work in Africa during the 19th century, spreading both Islam and a high level of literacy into Africa as far south as Lake Chad and beyond by setting up a network of zawiyas where Islam was taught.

Thus, even African Americans who might have descended from free families could not get an exemption to literacy tests, which in practice were highly subjective, with registrars who discriminated against black voters.

The practice of smoking marijuana was bought to Brazil from its African slaves, and with the eugenic positivist intellectual and political status quo of the Western civilization in the early 20th century, its use was deemed as a signal of decadence by its stigmatized use as a recreational drug of the poor, the rural people and the Afro-Brazilian.

In practice, however, British efforts to usurp more and more judicial authority were so successful that in the 1850s they considered establishing European courts in place of traditional African ones.