time-honored customs. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
time-honored institutions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
(Inflation is the time-honored cure for big deficits.). From Wordnik.com. [Defending Yourself Against Deflation] Reference
Clinton handled this in a time-honored Washington tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Facing The Economy: There's No Safe Haven] Reference
Or follow the time-honored tradition of freeloading off friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Summer of Our Discontent] Reference
Others cited the time-honored maxim of living within your means. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Sam Wants You to Open Your Wallet] Reference
I twisted my hands in the time-honored fashion of people in pain. From Wordnik.com. [In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried] Reference
Blaming the press is a time-honored strategy in campaign politics. From Wordnik.com. [She’s B-a-a-ck] Reference
The above time-honored phrase was used sincerely on that occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
And, of course Steve, there's the other time-honored opportunity for fraud. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Election Tests Legitimate Voting] Reference
In time-honored Washington fashion, Baker himself may be feeding the rumors. From Wordnik.com. [Bush: The White House Blame Game] Reference
Paying homage to statistical milestones is a time-honored tradition in baseball. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Wagner Sets Record, Calls It 'Stupid'] Reference
She was there to perform a time-honored ritual, the singing of the National Anthem. From Wordnik.com. [Poetic License Raises A Star-Spangled Debate] Reference
To say the atmosphere is electric is a time-honored cliché at major sporting events. From Wordnik.com. [Vancouver Olympics offer real-time energy-tracking scoreboards] Reference
Not for him is the conventional wisdom or the time-honored standards of sportsmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: The Tao Of Steve] Reference
There isn't even a way to answer that time-honored question: Is That Your Final Answer?. From Wordnik.com. [Tune In, Log On, Go Play] Reference
I enjoyed discussing the issues with you and partaking in your time-honored traditions. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Davis: Empowering Women and Children for Global Health at Star Island's 2010 International Affairs Conference] Reference
It's a time-honored tradition in politics to change the names when you change your mind. From Wordnik.com. [Next: 'Nation-Building Lite'] Reference
In the end it may prove easier to dither, in the time-honored way of Europe's old elites. From Wordnik.com. [Season Of Shock] Reference
Bureaucrats frustrated by their political bosses have one time-honored weap-on: the leak. From Wordnik.com. [Full Speed Ahead] Reference
That has put a crimp in that time-honored university-revenue raiser — the parking ticket. From Wordnik.com. [Bummed at the Pump] Reference
And you know, it just all fell apart a little bit in, you know, time-honored musical fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Sandy Denny: Mercurial Queen Of British Folk Rock] Reference
This type of handwashing is a time-honored journalistic practice that is even older than golf!. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: A Good Ride Spoiled] Reference
Scottish designers are using time-honored techniques to produce snazzy modern sweaters as well. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion: Scottish Style] Reference
Advances are a time-honored tradition that serve authors the way venture capital serves entrepreneurs. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Goldberg: Who Needs Publishers? We All Do!] Reference
Faced with a gathering political storm, VA officials turned to a time-honored Washington tactic: delay. From Wordnik.com. [AN AFTERWAR IN WACO] Reference
The logic was Jacobin, the authority deriving from a perceived mandate to recast time-honored practices. From Wordnik.com. [The Obsolescence of Barack Obama] Reference
It's the time-honored tradition of NEWSWEEK colleagues checking out each others 'stories before publication. From Wordnik.com. [THE EDITOR'S DESK] Reference
Paris Hilton is the latest celeb to offer the time-honored explanation for inconvenient proximity to contraband. From Wordnik.com. [Paris Hilton's not-my-drugs excuse part of a time-honored celebrity bust tradition] Reference
Trading in fear, frustration, and all the other pulse-points of human emotion is a time-honored political tactic. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart Connelly: Ideology In Action] Reference
It's a time-honored, divide-and-conquer approach, and one that's had surprisingly little political bite this year. From Wordnik.com. [the cultural elite] Reference
The former boy wonder, 14, has since responded in the time-honored fashion, which is to say he's dumped his agents. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon And The Stars] Reference
Colosio was selected as the PRI's candidate not by an open primary, but in the time-honored way: Salinas picked him. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico's Fatal Error] Reference
Let us be conquerors, and France will owe to us the preservation of her ancient manners and her time-honored guarantees. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Was Yoshizawa really trying to enrich himself, or merely building personal relationships according to time-honored tradition?. From Wordnik.com. [Mighty Fall] Reference
There's a time-honored tradition in Congress where people support hearings into something in order to avoid taking a position. From Wordnik.com. [No, McConnell doesn't support repeal of birthright citizenship. Will he say so?] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) SAGAL: What's weird about this is changing this program, this time-honored basic training exercise regimen. From Wordnik.com. [Opening Panel Round] Reference
The mystery was why the United States didn't engage in the time-honored practice of signing a treaty and working out the details later. From Wordnik.com. [The Grinch Of Rio] Reference
A short time later, the Office of Independent Counsel duly repeated Clinton's answer to Lewinsky, who responded in time-honored fashion. From Wordnik.com. [How Strong Is Starr's Case?] Reference
This includes the U.S. sport of tackle football, which for many towns and cities across the country is a time-honored community tradition. From Wordnik.com. [High School Sports and Religion Intersect in Dearborn] Reference
Will the Continent go along in its time-honored way, protecting government monopolies, favored industries and cozy social-welfare systems?. From Wordnik.com. [TURNING OFF THE LIGHTS] Reference
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