Santa in a traditional dhoti.

I guess there's nothing wrong with going traditional.

She sat on a traditional stool and spread her legs wide apart.

Why? I'm not an explorer in the traditional sense.

He must be causa sui , in the traditional phrase.

In the Philippines, a school was erected in 1939 in his honour.

He's a painter, but he doesn't do traditional Chinese painting.

However, the violence women suffer is more normalised and accepted by society.

The kelin (female in law) occupies an important if often downtrodden role in the traditional Kyrgyz household.

Similarly, homosexual partners are generally best friends which is rarely the case between husband and wife in a machista society.

When they spoke of creating a new system of collective security they meant it in the traditional military sense.

Today, as with most places in the world, blogging in Russia as it s traditionally understood is dead.

I want to start a family, but I don t see myself marrying a Qatari, or having a traditional marriage.

Mining projects in Mongolia promise development of social and economic infrastructure and a way to alleviate poverty, but on the wayside, local communities near the mines are feeling the negative impact as their environment and traditional livelihoods are affected.

The women s movement in Morocco which now bridges secular and religious communities is setting an example of the power of social thought in a traditional society.

In this contest people have to write and recite original poetry, in the Nabati form of poetry, which is the traditional Bedouin form.

Renamo says the government initiated the latest clashes by launching an attack on its members in Sofala province, traditionally a Renamo stronghold, on October 17.

He was born in 2011 and baptized by the patriarch himself at the Cathedral of Svetitskhoveli in Mtskheta, the traditional site for Georgian kings to be crowned.

Russia could also play the role of a transatlantic integrator, mediating the various conflicts and differences in the traditional Atlantic community.

The following excerpt is from a letter sent to us by a girl who wanted to sing the Epic of Manas, a traditional Kyrgyz epic that tells the life story of a mythical warrior king

It is a corridor through which it can secure its interests in Pakistan, a traditional ally, and ensure its access to vital natural resources in the region.

It is perplexing because in conventional analyses of which activities should be in the public domain, running the national mortgage market is never mentioned.

If the traditional political wife is vanishing, it is voters own fault we set it up to be a thankless and infantilizing position.

The word love indicated in the illustration, for instance, is composed of a number of morphemes including a hand, a shelter, a heart and a friend when written in traditional Chinese script.

In an extensive post accompanied by photos, Making Wool from Eggs, another PCV blog, paints a colorful picture of the engagement party, the symbols used, and of course, traditional dance.

Much of what has been reported is not news in the traditional sense, of course, but a series of embarrassing gaffes truths that were never meant to be said aloud.

Information is liberating in the traditional political sense of the term the spread of information has had a direct impact on the degree of accountability and transparency that governments must deliver if they are to survive.

Fish works for the Danish Refugee Council, but it's not a job in the traditional sense the agency provides Fish with a stipend, and considers him a volunteer.

When we think of the traditional roles of men and women in society, we think of husbands supporting the family, and wives taking care of the house and children.

Fireblade was not released, and in December of the same year, recording began for ...En their medh ríki fara... (Old Norse, ...And in Glory Will They Go... ).

Can the values of a consumer society be applied to societies with nothing to consume? At the risk of sounding frivolous When you stop a man in traditional dress from beating his wife, are you upholding her human rights or violating his?

Looking beyond the Middle East, Africa provides the best evidence for a geopolitics based as much on regional powers and institutions as on traditional great powers. While Annan has been trying his diplomatic best to resolve Syria s crisis, upheavals in Senegal, Mali, Malawi, and Guinea Bissau have been swiftly addressed by other regional powers.

At the risk of sounding frivolous When you stop a man in traditional dress from beating his wife, are you upholding her human rights or violating his?

Looking beyond the Middle East, Africa provides the best evidence for a geopolitics based as much on regional powers and institutions as on traditional great powers.

The migrants started to sell chicken and vegetables in the traditional market cheaper than the local Papuans, explains Abeth You, a 24 year old Paniai native who moved to the provincial capital Jayapura for work.

Dmitry Semenov reposted an image on his VKontakte page featuring Russian PM Dmitri Medvedev in a traditional North Caucasian headpiece with an Arabic caption roughly translated as Death to the Russian snake.

When Blair enters Parliament for the weekly ritual of Prime Minister's Questions, members of his own Labor Party heckle him and ask hostile questions.

The banks do not have monopoly pricing power in the traditional sense, and their market share at the national level is lower than what would trigger an antitrust investigation in the non financial sectors.

The good news for those who desire stability and democracy in Iraq is that an amorphous, disorganized, and nihilistic insurgency cannot win in the traditional sense of replacing the government and forming a new regime.

If you want America to lead by the power of example, you favor Barack Obama if you want to be reassured by the continuation of America s power in a traditional security sense, you probably prefer John McCain.