These muay contests gradually became an integral part of local festivals and celebrations, especially those held at temples.

These services could be very long, sometimes lasting till dawn, but usually consisted of a chant, three antiphons, three psalms, and three lessons, along with celebrations of any local saints ' days.

These offerings and practices are done frequently during important traditional or religious celebrations, the starting of a new business, or even when a family member needs guidance or counsel and is a hallmark of the emphasis Vietnamese culture places on filial duty.

These celebrations can last from a day up to the entire week, and the New Year is filled with people in the streets trying to make as much noise as possible using firecrackers, drums, bells, gongs, and anything they can think of to ward off evil spirits.

These celebrations were held every five years until World War II, during which time none were held.

These fireworks companies have been featured in venues such as presidential celebrations and Super Bowls.

These are not merely aimed at tourism but authentic celebrations that take months to prepare.

These dancers performed publicly for wedding celebrations, feasts, festivals, and in the presence of the sultans.

These celebrations include music, dances, meals and typical drinks.

These symbols are often rallied around as part of celebrations of patriotism or aspiring nationalism ( such as independence, autonomy or separation movements ) and are designed to be inclusive and representative of all the peoples of the national community.

These elaborate celebrations give Bristol its nickname, " America's most patriotic town ".

These new year celebrations sometimes fall on or near the same day of the Gregorian year:

These celebrations fall on other days:

These palaces were used for many different occasions such as coronation and other important celebrations.

These organizations formed drum and bugle corps of civilians and veterans, and the corps performed in community events and local celebrations.

These celebrations of traditional life have inspired multiple later composers who modernized traditional music, including Olev Muska and Coralie Joyce, Kirile Loo, Veljo Tormis and the Estonian-Australian choir Kiri-uu.

These celebrations are concluded on the tenth day of " Vijaya Dashami ", which is usually a national holiday.

These songs are usually nationalistic, and are celebrations of Breton culture.

These celebrations include horse races featuring Peruvian Caballos de Paso and the traditional running of the bulls, known locally as the jalatoro or pascuatoro.

These celebrations usually took place in the house of the girl or the more spacious house of a relative.

These celebrations feature mariachis, folk dance and a festival queen.

These include the historical night-time student fado serenade which happens in the stairs of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra to a crowd of thousands of students and other spectators, every year during the celebrations.

These three types of celebrations are very similar to each other and are " women-only " events.

Paul Collins suggests that the expulsions were partly the result of a speech made by Carson on the 12 July Orange Order celebrations linking Labour with Sinn Féin: “… These men who come forward as the friends of Labour care no more about Labour than does the man in the moon.

These personal and social goals often overshadow the goals of intellectual clarity, and spiritual transcendence.

These students, although they might read various articles in popular magazines, more often chose to report on articles found in the journals.

These were often carefully written out with a great deal of thought behind them.

These cases, for all their rarity, are so dramatic that friends and relations repeat the story until the general population may get an entirely false notion of how often the hymen is a serious problem to newly-weds.

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

These villages, called pueblos by Spanish settlers, were often only accessible by rope or through rock climbing.

These surfacing stones were often placed in distinctive patterns.

These modifications are often essential for the function or regulation of a protein ; for example, the carboxylation of glutamate allows for better binding of calcium cations, and the hydroxylation of proline is critical for maintaining connective tissues.

These measured positions are then compared with those calculated by the laws of celestial mechanics: an assembly of calculated positions is often referred to as an ephemeris, in which distances are commonly calculated in astronomical units.

These and most other cities and large towns are now connected with asphalt-paved roads, while smaller towns are often connected by dirt roads, which may require a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

These Abrasax-stones often bear Hebraic names of God: Iao, Sabaoth, Adonai, Eloai.

These brokers often traded stocks that were speculative in nature.

These bases were prepared in advance, often by capturing an estate and augmenting its defences with surrounding ditches, ramparts and palisades.

These dilemmas are often regarded as conflicts between his view on international relations and his other loyalties.

These art pieces often served a liturgical function, whether as chalices or even as church buildings themselves.

These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which.

These guitars are most commonly used by swing and jazz players and often incorporate electronics in the form of a pickup.

These edicts often pertained to matters such as the regulation of the public markets, or what we might call " economic regulation ".

These assist in flotation, together with the vacuoles in the ectoplasm, which often contain zooxanthellae.

These effects, often several of them at a time, made it very difficult for World War II era aircraft to reach speeds much beyond 800 km / h ( 500 mph ).

These include serotonin-dopamine antagonists ( see dopamine antagonist and serotonin antagonist ), multi-acting receptor-targeted antipsychotics ( MARTA, those targeting several systems ), and dopamine partial agonists, which are often categorized as atypicals.

These two values are often interpreted as binary digits and are usually denoted by the numerical digits 0 and 1.

These BBSes often had multiple modems and phone lines, allowing several users to upload and download files at once.

These instruments had varying numbers of strings, though often including some form of drone.

; Presiding Bishop or President Bishop: These titles are often used for the head of a national Anglican church, but the title is not usually associated with a particular episcopal see like the title of a primate.