(n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Vatican's spokesman Federico Lombardi insisted the rite took place in "a specific situation in which excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating a message of love to all".
(2) If that is not possible, they should issue visas on an urgent basis for their families so that they can travel to the US and perform the last rites."
(3) The challenge of eliminating the practice in a culture that sees it as a rite of passage is huge, but the stakes couldn't be higher.
(4) Annually thousands of teenage boys from the Xhosa tribe embark on a secretive rite of passage in Eastern Cape province, spending up to a month in seclusion where they study, undergo circumcision by a traditional surgeon, and apply white clay to their bodies.
(5) Chinese authorities in Aba refused to allow locals to carry out traditional funeral rites for Gepey so as not to provide an opportunity for Tibetans to gather and protest, Free Tibet said.
(6) At the same time, only half of millennials have a driver’s licence, a rite of passage for prior generations.
(7) It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things.” Indigenous prisoner who killed himself wasn't in a 'safe' cell despite being at risk Read more He said a Labor government would fund three trials – in a city, a regional town and a remote community – of “justice reinvestment” programs, “redirecting funds spent on justice system to prevention and diversionary programs to address underlying causes of offending with disproportionately high levels of incarceration”.
(8) The authors present their experience with 28 patients who had incurred unstable thoracic or lumbar spine fractures and who were intraoperatively stabilized with the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (TSRH) universal instrumentation system.
(9) Rigorous training Mentors receive rigorous training and use a "rites of passage" approach where mentees are encouraged to form strong and enduring bonds to the older men who guide them.
(10) He may also have been giving the last rites, but he picked up the rifle."
(11) You need to go through rites of passage that only a man can do.
(12) For young people in Hartlepool, one of the most deprived parts of the country, going to university is more than just a rite of passage.
(13) In the summer of 1982, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.) sponsored a camp for paraplegic adolescents.
(14) The "teenager" has proved a highly workable rite of passage for the past 70 years.
(15) Are we talking about a religious rite--or about child abuse?
(16) His life reads like a blockbuster of its own – after Tribal Rites he continued writing, true stories mostly, and in 1983 was arrested for conspiring to import millions of dollars worth of heroin and cocaine into the US.
(17) Child marriage: we must urge action to stop girls' initiation rites | Persilia Muianga Read more The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, promised to end child marriage of under-15s by 2021 and reduce by more than one-third the number of girls married between the ages of 15 and 18, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the practice by 2041.
(18) All patients were treated by bracing at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital from 1970 to 1980.
(19) While Respond is supportive of people with learning disabilities who are able to give consent and do make the decision to get married freely, Khan is keen to stress the importance of providing support for those who may be pressured into doing so: “Through our referral service, we aim to work towards removing labels which further victimise people, taking each case on its own merit and working with people to fully understand what is actually happening within each situation.” She explains how nuanced some of the cases can be: Within many families there can be a belief that marriage is a rite of passage and some families may even perhaps wish or hope that it will “cure” the person of learning disabilities.
(20) It has long been a painful rite of passage for German schoolchildren – learning "die Schreibschrift", a fiddly form of joined-up handwriting all pupils are expected to have mastered by the time they leave primary school.
Rive
Definition:
(v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles.
(v. i.) To be split or rent asunder.
(n.) A place torn; a rent; a rift.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's a little two-yard reception but it adds up to six points on what was a well rounded, d ominant d rive by D enver - call it a 3D-TD.
(2) Reinnervation, observed in some cases, is not the main factor for the good clinical results obtained with Rives muscle plasty, but can improve adaptability and elasticity of the transplant considerably.
(3) Thus Rives muscle plasty using a flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle to cover large congenital diaphragmatic defects seems morphologically as well as functionally superior to other procedures especially those using plastic material.
(4) It was used on Yves's ready-to-wear line and the Rive Gauche shop front .
(5) PI was increased by renal interstitial volume expansion (RIVE) via injection of 50 microliters of a 2% albumin in saline solution into the renal interstitium through a chronically implanted interstitial catheter.
(6) Rives muscle plasty using a pediculate flap of the latissimus dorsi muscle is an approved method for correction of large congenital diaphragmatic defects.
(7) And in the mid-60s, his ready-to-wear Rive Gauche label became a global phenomenon, offering women an affordable slice of the YSL dream.
(8) Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis with meclofenamate or indomethacin attenuated the natriuretic response and blocked the increase in UPGE2 associated with RIVE.
(9) YSL Rive Gauche, the ready-to-wear line, was immediately sold to Gucci, netting Saint Laurent and Bergé $70m.
(10) A series of 96 patients who underwent "eventration repair" using Mersilene-Mesh, according to Rives technique between jan 1983 and june 1988 is reported.
(11) Implantation site was the retromuscular space following the J. Rives technique.
(12) After a survey of the state of electrotherapy at the beginning of the 19th century, the author studies the pertinent work of Auguste De la Rive (1801-1873), mainly exposed in the three volumes of his Traité d'électricité théorique et pratique (1854-1858).
(13) The Rives technique was used, placing the prostheses between the posterior sheath and the rectus muscle; in one case it was inserted under the peritoneum.
(14) A standard Rives plasty was performed, emg electrodes were inserted into the diaphragm as well as into the muscle transplant.
(15) As Lauren Bacall put it in 1968 at the opening of the New York branch of Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, while wearing a black jumpsuit, "If it's pants, its Yves"; Helmut Newton's photograph of a woman on a street, smoking in a tuxedo , is part of the label's iconography.
(16) The brand was founded in 1961 as an haute couture house; five years later Yves and Bergé revolutionised the fashion industry with the first ready-to-wear line, Saint Laurent Rive Gauche.
(17) The results demonstrated 9.9% morbidity and 5.7% recurrences by Rives' technique vs 3.1 morbidity and complete absence of recurrences by Stoppa's technique.
(18) On the other hand recurrent hernias in risky patients as well as gross hernias are treated by Rives' method which consists in a prolene mesh placement through the inguinal approach.
(19) Fractional sodium excretion (FENa), renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure (PI), and urinary prostaglandin excretion (UPGE2) were measured before and after RIVE in eight control, seven meclofenamate-treated, and eight indomethacin-treated rats.
(20) Fusion of FISH and of reconstituted influenza (RIVE) or reconstituted Sendai virus envelopes (RSVE) with recipient membranes was determined by the use of fluorescently labeled envelopes and fluorescence dequenching methods.