• It is not clear how much the average Moroccan, raised in a tradition of deference to the monarchy, cares about the lack of political liberalisation.

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  • Once again, tickets will be distributed through an online lottery system, allowing guests from across the United States to participate in a tradition that dates back to 1878.

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  • White House Easter Egg Roll tickets will be distributed through an online lottery system, allowing guests from across the United States to participate in a tradition that dates back to 1878.

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  • Indeed, Howell might be seen to be working in a tradition unrelated to clothes, alongside British artists and designers whose works draw inspiration from the land, such as David Mellor with his Sheffield steelworks, Peter Lanyon's landscape abstractions and the organic forms of Henry Moore.

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  • Revellers in the city centre greeted the new year by eating 12 grapes in time with the chimes at Madrid's central Puerta del Sol clock in a national tradition, while hundreds of thousands partied in Berlin to live music in the landmark Brandenburg Gate.

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  • When it comes to science, judges are steeped in a long tradition of welcoming junk into the courtroom.

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  • Graham Thomas was in a gardening tradition that stretches back to Theophrastus, the most influential botanist of antiquity.

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  • The Facebook Keiretsu is the newest in a strong tradition of techies still working together once they hit it rich.

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  • They're in a long tradition - going back to the 1970s Reclaim the Night movement - of trying to make the streets safer and more pleasant for women.

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  • Jewellers Wartski is a family jewellery business in London with a tradition of research, scholarship and specialist exhibitions.

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  • As we both know from our own sports past and professional management experience, a true team finds its own rhythm in creating a winning tradition.

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  • In recent history, conventions are basically a meaningless tradition in which only one ballot is held, choosing a nominee that has already been decided in the primaries.

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  • But he ultimately followed through on a promise to legislators that he would sign such a measure, expending political capital in a state with a long tradition of gun ownership and libertarian leanings.

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  • In their common sense of French decline, however, which has a long tradition in French writing, they share a bleakness that has struck a chord in contemporary France.

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  • Ishaaq Hussain told his family he was going on a prayer retreat in southern England - a tradition for some observant Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan.

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  • "In a continent in which most of the memory of peoples is transferred orally through storytelling and can be lost, the people in Timbuktu had a written tradition that is quite rare in Africa, " he said.

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  • Despite the fund's apparent novelty, Britain has in fact a long tradition of government attempts to help budding enterprises.

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  • New York isn't alone in losing a beloved tradition to the sequester.

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  • In a break from tradition, Virginia's two senators supported the proposal.

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  • Let me also say -- and I think the group around the table will confirm -- that this New START treaty is completely in line with a tradition of bipartisan cooperation on this issue.

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  • But there are also efforts to restore the lifestyle of Carnival in Rio, a tradition of street culture and music, rather than just an annual bonanza, and connecting Rio's favelas closer to its beaches through cable cars.

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  • "We've got a great tradition in Gloucestershire of working as a team, " he said.

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  • We ought to be able to, in a country as proud and as rich in tradition as the United States of America, to have a debate in a way that is civil and in a way that demonstrates both the passion of our beliefs, but in the values that we hold dearly as a country.

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  • In a pre-Thanksgiving tradition at the Chi Phi chapter at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.

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  • The UN conference is supposed to conclude on Friday evening here in Poznan, but there are signs that the final sessions may continue through the night - something of a tradition in recent years.

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  • Mexico's ruling party, the PRI , announced that it would hold an open primary election in November to choose its presidential candidate, breaking a long tradition in which incumbent Mexican presidents have chosen their successors.

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  • The present and past pope, who retired last month as pontiff in a 600-year break with tradition, met on Saturday at the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo, where Benedict is staying until a former convent on the grounds of Vatican City can be readied for his residence.

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  • But the firm wants to hire a quarter of its 80-strong workforce in Gubin, which has a tradition of shoemaking and plenty of cheap, skilled labour.

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  • The roster includes two physicians, a hat maker, a furniture manufacturer, a fellow-traveling lawyer, a small-time criminal lawyer, a corrupt (in the best Chicago tradition) lawyer, a high-school teacher, a sculptor, an unsuccessful inventor, and a sad loser who rides the rails during the Depression.

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  • "The only reason we sell is to fuel our ability to buy, " says David's son Helly, 29, who runs a gallery in the posh Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue. (Helly's cousin, also named Helly Nahmad after their grandfather Hillel in the Sephardic Jewish tradition, runs a gallery in London.) And while there is a cost to holding that inventory, the family's currency business helps support their art strategy.

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