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  • There is a time-honoured way of distinguishing between people who all want the same thing. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is the time-honoured English way. Times, Sunday Times
  • They depart in the time-honoured journeys in search for opportunity. Alamos: Still a boom to bust town, but with everlasting charm
  • She prefers, in that time-honoured tradition of serious musicians, to let the music do the talking.
  • The next stage of their attack – and attack is the time-honoured best form of defence, after all – is generally to repeat a variation of the hate speech of Janice Raymond as iterated in her transphobic screed The Transsexual Empire: the making of the she-male: Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
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  • We'll let Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl complete that apothegm in the time-honoured way. Archive 2009-04-01
  • This story is based on those time-honoured economic concepts, namely supply and demand. The Times Literary Supplement
  • This story is based on those time-honoured economic concepts, namely supply and demand. The Times Literary Supplement
  • In doing so, she joined in with a time-honoured tradition of musicians taking a stance against war.
  • Of course, there exists a long and time-honoured tradition of guitar duets.
  • They showed their approval in the time-honoured way .
  • This is a time-honoured comedy, which, in layperson's terms, means old-fashioned.
  • Much imaginative capering ensues as our stroppy young heroine comes of age through the time-honoured route of folly, emergency driving lessons and sexual awakening at the hands of Robert Sheehan the gobby Irish one from Misfits, who plays snoggable townie borrower Spiller as a tearaway in a red biker jacket. Phil Hogan's Christmas TV highlights
  • In doing so, she joined in with a time-honoured tradition of musicians taking a stance against war.
  • In time-honoured fashion he will give with one hand while taking with the other. Times, Sunday Times
  • She prefers, in that time-honoured tradition of serious musicians, to let the music do the talking.
  • Adding your name to a parent's policy is a time-honoured way of cutting costs and building experience. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, one upstart Edinburgh-based investment boutique has been blowing these time-honoured traditions away.
  • Milroy struggled a little with the time-honoured art of flannelling on live-to-camera while nothing much was happening: ‘Julian?’
  • In the 1990s I was involved with a small group of magicians who ‘created’ an egregore and then tried to make contact with it using a variety of methods, such as a planchette, the time-honoured seance method, etc.
  • They attach themselves to her in the time-honoured order: strongest take the front teats, weakest the rear.
  • So in the time-honoured tradition of capitalism, I'm going to steal their idea and offer my own solutions, at a cut rate of course.
  • Two proposals give a contemporary twist to the time-honoured concept of the equestrian statue. Times, Sunday Times
  • In time-honoured fashion, the guests now threw rice and tokens of good luck at the bridal couple. Consuelo & Alva: Love and Power in the Gilded Age
  • April 1, known as Poisson d'avril in Quebec and France, is a time-honoured occasion for practical jokes. CBC | Top Stories News
  • I suppose you know such a stance is much more difficult than football's time-honoured custom of playing ostrich. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hawkers (known as higglers), their bargains purchased overseas, return to set up their wares on the sidewalks, competing with time-honoured merchants who display goods indoors.
  • Headquarters motivates managers to meet targets in time-honoured style: carrot and stick.
  • This story is based on those time-honoured economic concepts, namely supply and demand. The Times Literary Supplement
  • This story is based on those time-honoured economic concepts, namely supply and demand. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Sharon became involved with music in the time-honoured fashion -- through her family.
  • The Huntsman collection includes suits, sports coats, overcoats, blazers, shirts and ties: time-honoured essentials of the smartly-attired gentleman about town and country.
  • Columbus is played by unknown George Corraface, a handsome young thing in the time-honoured, clean-cut movie mould.
  • The burst of flash illuminates a mass of arms raised, index fingers and little fingers pointing skywards, in the time-honoured rock salute.
  • Juliette Blightman deals in deceptive banalities that, through meticulously selective stage management, conjure moments of reverie on the time-honoured, irrepressible passing of time. This week's new exhibitions
  • Resources will then be allocated effectively in the time-honoured tradition of markets.
  • Jailed in time-honoured fashion for four years, he eventually joined the politburo when Romania turned Communist in 1948.
  • In accordance with the time-honoured custom of generals, he was carried in on a four-horse chariot and clothed in purple, a far more brilliant hue than any other.
  • It's not helped by an Opposition that has failed to respect its time-honoured tradition of turning on and devouring itself after successive election defeats.
  • According to the good Father's journal, he sensed sin emanating from the ground in and around San Miguel - he singled out the myriad hot springs and the time-honoured tradition of bathing in them, a pretext, said the Father, for people "getting together". Between Dolores Hidalgo and San Miguel de Allende: Pozos, Atotonilco and Hacienda Taboada
  • Columbus is played by unknown George Corraface, a handsome young thing in the time-honoured, clean-cut movie mould.
  • Still to the left of this, uprose the Palatine, the earliest settled of the hills of Rome, with the old walls of Romulus, and the low straw-built shed, wherein that mighty son of Mars dwelt when he governed his wild robber-clan; and the bidental marking the spot where lightning from the monarch of Olympus, called on by undue rites, consumed Hostilius and his house; were still preserved with reverential worship, and on its eastern peak, the time-honoured shrine of Stator Jove. The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • So, the time-honoured system of casting votes will continue in June and many people are glad about that, especially politicians and their tallymen.
  • Headquarters motivates managers to meet targets in time-honoured style: carrot and stick.
  • Administrators can avoid criticism by the time-honoured tactic of shooting the messengers - labelling them trolls, then banning them.
  • Another approach is to soften and deformalise the outlines of traditional topiary, while retaining time-honoured techniques to maintain them. Times, Sunday Times
  • She has refitted the inside of the shop but will be doling out the confectionery in the time-honoured way, with a set of scales and brown paper bags.
  • The women, however, don anything from '50s pastel prom dresses to time-honoured vixen garb of garters and corsets.
  • Some modern factories use cow's milk, which is cheaper and produces a milder flavoured cheese, although Loula continues the time-honoured method using only goat's milk.
  • Church tithes are a time-honoured tradition stipulated in the Old Testament of the Bible.
  • Some modern factories use cow's milk, which is cheaper and produces a milder flavoured cheese, although Loula continues the time-honoured method using only goat's milk.
  • The five singers were accompanied by ten dancers, but maintained their time-honoured practice of using recorded backing tracks instead of musicians. Times, Sunday Times
  • From what little I'd learned, fairs were pretty orderly along time-honoured lines. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • Why can't it confirm the cheques in the time-honoured fashion? Times, Sunday Times
  • It's one thing, in the time-honoured way of lily-livered journalists the world over, to tear someone apart when they're not there to defend themselves.
  • Opening an album with the strongest songs is a time-honoured practice.
  • Second, the old-boy network offered a time-honoured alternative to advertising, particularly for the most senior appointments.
  • Watson mastered this complex situation, reaffirming the pragmatism which anchored the Labor Party and which was inherent in the political forms of laborism derived from time-honoured trade unionism.
  • Elsewhere, Ethan Hawke chews up the scenery as the cash-strapped cop on the take who pours out his heart in the confessional box in time-honoured policier fashion. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
  • The co-owners of the new brewery have just begun producing their own brand of ales, brewed to secret recipes in time-honoured tradition.
  • The ritual enactments of faith are the time-honoured ways in which people show their commitment to their tradition.
  • In time-honoured fashion, the project ran over budget. Times, Sunday Times
  • In time-honoured fashion, his brother is willing to go to any lengths to get him back. Times, Sunday Times
  • Opening an album with the strongest songs is a time-honoured practice.
  • Called to attend at 10.15 in the morning, we started in the time-honoured way of civilization with a coffee break.
  • The rituals of confession, penitence and absolution provided the time-honoured solutions.
  • The beer is brewed in the time-honoured way at the Castle Eden Brewery.
  • Yet new research suggests that this time-honoured practice is a guaranteed route to lower grades. Times, Sunday Times
  • The children disappear for hours, running back and forth into the shallows and, in time-honoured tradition of this beach, modelling figures from the clay in the cliffs, before leaving them to bake in the sun. Powerless to resist: a no-tech break on the Isle of Wight
  • They attach themselves to her in the time-honoured order: strongest take the front teats, weakest the rear.
  • But our village friend, though perhaps constructively right in his philosophizing, was certainly very defective in his acquaintance with the time-honoured art of rhabdomancy. Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
  • Although I'm not averse to abusing the chickpea's easy-going nature on occasion I can particularly recommend the carrot and cardamom hummus from Alice Hart's new book, Vegetarian, here I'm sticking to the time-honoured quartet of chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic – no peanut butter, Nigella, and no dried mint thank you Elizabeth David. How to make perfect hummus
  • Appearance: Mountains, forests, fast-flowing rivers, picturesque castles, sleepy villages, horse carts, elderly peasants ploughing land with age-old implements, blacksmiths sloshed on the deadly local brew palinka plying their time-honoured trade. The Guardian World News
  • From what little I'd learned, fairs were pretty orderly along time-honoured lines. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • One of the time-honoured ways of bringing interest to cooking is by adding alcohol. Times, Sunday Times
  • Second, the old-boy network offered a time-honoured alternative to advertising, particularly for the most senior appointments.
  • In time-honoured fashion the series finale ends in mayhem. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead the old instinct to fix was on clear display, deploying all the time-honoured tricks.
  • Others saw it as the time-honoured custom of cashing-in from a band about to call it a day.
  • The sale of honours is a time-honoured practice of which all major political parties have been guilty. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's no escaping the fundamentally ascetic nature of calorie-controlled dieting; if you really care so little for your emotional wellbeing then surely the time-honoured method of ingesting 400 laxatives and running on the spot in a boilersuit is the way to go. The Hard Sell: Slim-Fast 3-2-1
  • Sometimes they echo time-honoured memories of widespread flooding in the region following the end of the last ice age.
  • This time-honoured travel strategy can be daunting if you're not used to it, but you'll soon come to discover that unplugged travel carries its own, often more rewarding, set of possibilities.rolfpotts.com Has technology robbed travel of its riches?
  • Eleven of the poor souls are to be discarded like crumpled tissue paper, the time-honoured public phone vote ensuring that one of their number is transported into the main house to meet their plebby new pals.
  • Southbank Centre, SE1, to 25 Apr Cuckoo Festival, Marsden, SatMorris dancers around a maypole, workshops, storytelling, crafts, street theatre, a rubber duck race and the time-honoured village cuckoo procession bring a touch of olde worlde mythic magic to this spring party. This week's new events
  • A recent examination of the cutting applied to bottles fitted into hallmarked frames has proved time-honoured views about dating early English cutting to have been overcautious.
  • Two proposals give a contemporary twist to the time-honoured concept of the equestrian statue. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the short-term, the results of the town's decline were in keeping with that time-honoured symbiosis between shrinking prospects and the politics of hate: Hoyerswerda remains a byword for a deeply ugly episode in 1991 when local neo-nazis besieged a hostel for refugees, cheered on by hundreds of locals. Quiet epitaph to industry: a typical East German town
  • Tom Wealdon used to remark, with a chuckle, from time to time, in the thick of the fuss and conspiration which was the breath of his nostrils; and, doubtless, so they are, and were, and ever will be, until the time-honoured machinery of our election system has been overhauled, and adapted to the civilisation of these days. Wylder's Hand
  • Oppression and intolerance continue in a time-honoured tradition.
  • Now laptops are getting in the way of that time-honoured educational process. Times, Sunday Times
  • In time-honoured tradition, it was a complete surprise, followed by a champagne reception for her family and colleagues.
  • In time-honoured tradition, it was a complete surprise, followed by a champagne reception for her family and colleagues.
  • But the ship left Cairns for New Zealand, it was difficult to sum up the visit briefly and succinctly, other than in the time-honoured fashion - bonzer!
  • Resources will then be allocated effectively in the time-honoured tradition of markets.
  • However, one upstart Edinburgh-based investment boutique has been blowing these time-honoured traditions away.
  • Oppression and intolerance continue in a time-honoured tradition.
  • Of course, there exists a long and time-honoured tradition of guitar duets.
  • But in time-honoured fashion she plays down any interest in the job. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then again, Fifa's general secretary, Jérôme Valcke, hosting the draw and looking to make the time-honoured transition from office administration to light entertainment, is no Dave Lee Travis or 'Diddy' David Hamilton, however much glitter he sprinkles over himself. Girl from Ipanema was not the only bum note struck at a Rio marina | Scott Murray
  • Resources will then be allocated effectively in the time-honoured tradition of markets.
  • This story is based on those time-honoured economic concepts, namely supply and demand. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Others saw it as the time-honoured custom of cashing-in from a band about to call it a day.
  • The co-owners of the new brewery have just begun producing their own brand of ales, brewed to secret recipes in time-honoured tradition.
  • A few years later there was a real library with reading tables and librarians who said "shush" in the time-honoured fashion. Library cuts will deny our children the glorious addiction of reading

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