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  • s  acceptable for a long time
    time-honored customs
  • s  honored because of age or long usage
    time-honored institutions

  • Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution's time-honored checks and balances," it declares.
  • But above all Saunders puts his faith in another time-honored virtue of the gloved version of the sport: "Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and .
  • The use of respectable fronts and legitimate businesses is a time-honored Mafia ploy, and according to police, Barnes learned that trick and many others from the late Brooklyn .
News & Articles

  • National parks to offer healthier food
    WASHINGTON — The consumption of rubbery hot dogs and cellophane-wrapped sandwiches of indeterminate age is a time-honored rite of passage for families making the trek to national parks around the coun
    June 16, 2013 - Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • Recession-proof fun: Plan a picnic
    A picnic can be romantic, relaxing or, frankly, a desperate home-cook's creative way out of standing over a hot stove.Summer's brilliant weather demands to be embraced, and picnics are a time-honored way to do just that. The venue can be virtually anywhere — beach, riverside, grassy hill or yo...
    June 15, 2013 - Lancaster Online
  • Fred Willard climbs onto HBO's comedy 'Family Tree'
    It may be a bit of a stretch for actor Fred Willard, but in Sunday¿s episode of Christopher Guest¿s delightful new HBO comedy, ¿Family Tree,¿ he will step into the time-honored TV role of wacky next-door neighbor.        
    June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
Quotes

  • Cat Cora in SYS-CON Media (press release)
    The truth is, casting aside the time-honored protection of habeas corpus makes us more vulnerable as a nation because it leads us away from our core American values and calls into question our historic role as a defender of human rights around the... Patrick Leahy http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Leahy&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFcZSJmJ7wQO0GBByzBnDCGtMs8VA New York Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/washington/20detain.html%3Fhp&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGyhrDDqF-vK3uxGE8dDbBZMy45pg Sep 19, 2007 100207 133130 time-honored Cora said that the new restaurant will feature time-honored recipes passed down from my ancestors, as well as my favorite Greek and Mediterranean dishes that my family loves."
  • Dez Fafara in Blabbermouth.net
    DEVILDRIVER's Dez Fafara agrees: "Ozzfest! It's beyond an honor to be asked back yet again to the mothership of all summer concerts. There's not a better time-honored tradition. It's a rock 'n' roll, sundrenched, rile up and fire up, rip-roaring,...

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