genuflection

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Exempel på genuflection

  • Of course, political life is capable of many genuflections.

  • On such occasions as this, however, it is conventional to invoke fulsome praise and to make ritual genuflections.

  • Using the criminal justice system to make symbolic genuflections to political causes, however noble, only undermines the effective operation of the rule of law and fetters proper judicial discretion.

  • He promises to interpret the holy scripture strictly, and offers three days of fasting a week and a hundred genuflections a day.

  • I am not going to make a sentimental, ritual genuflection to the nurses, but face the facts and state them as they are.

  • My genuflection on this occasion to the traditional sentiments of trepidation and anxiety in making a maiden speech is not merely traditional.

  • Again, it was a genuflection to party ideology that the investment income surcharge had to start at £1,000.

  • At least last year we had a genuflection in the direction of a value-added tax.

  • To date we have had reflection, but no genuflection.

  • There was not even a passing genuflection in that direction.

  • They amount to little more than a genuflection in the direction of local participation.

  • The genuflection, in place of the previous bow of the head, was introduced only in the fourteenth century.

  • Abbots and other senior monastics often received genuflection from their monks and often others.

  • During the priest's second genuflection, servers release chasuble, make a deep bow and ring the bell once.

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