Time Honored

This episode gave birth to the “Washington Monument ploy,” which refers to the time-honored tradition of politicians responding to threats of spending cuts by declaring that the most popular programs would be the first to go. ❋ Glenn Beck (2010)

With the advent of the Phoenician alphabet, then, and following other alphabets that appeared in its wake, time-honored social orders were reconfigured, and wider populations gained access to literacy. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Here the ministers wear time-honored white robes, adorned with colorful stoles. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

But then, to test his skills in a time-honored fashion taught at all Greek schools of rhetoric, the king asked him to take the opposite stand and denounce Macedonian virtue. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Disagreeing with Israel is a time-honored tradition. ❋ Rabbi David Wolpe (2011)

But reading too much into what happens in April is a time-honored, New York tradition. ❋ Brian Costa (2011)

But the fact that it was even in question underscores a time-honored form of gamesmanship in baseball: tailoring a team's home field in its favor. ❋ Brian Costa (2011)

Still, the five boys and five girls projected happy reminders of their school's time-honored traditions. ❋ Robert Greskovic (2011)

In this political battle, Kirby employed a time-honored tactic of push pollers and ward politicians: He used an ominoussounding claim—“Curiously, the first case of autism was not recorded until the early 1940s, a few years after thimerosal was introduced in vaccines”—to make his accusation sound as if it was idle speculation. ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)

At every level of matter from the smallest bodies to the largest we have specialists developing the principles that apply at that level by applying the time-honored methods of science -- observation, model building, and hypothesis testing. ❋ Victor Stenger (2011)

Many Britons celebrated the nuptials in the time-honored tradition of holding street parties. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The final straw is the time-honored classic, 100% Perfect Girl. ❋ Jeff Allen (2011)

It used to be that kids stayed with their Majors team for as long as they played in that league, allowing for the time-honored practice of coaches stocking their ponds by picking good young ten-year-olds who were not ready for Majors now but showed promise for the future. ❋ Scott Gummer (2011)

The oil and gas industry accuses the Times of shoddy research, but the paper has released a huge archive of original documents, some obtained through normal channels and some through the time-honored process of leaks from whistleblowers. ❋ Patrick Parenteau (2011)

While the world's attention on Friday focused largely on the royal wedding and the party after it at Buckingham Palace, most people in the U.K. celebrated the nuptials in the time-honored British tradition of holding street parties. ❋ Dana Cimilluca (2011)

As one who began driving regularly in Mexico in the early seventies, the reason for this time-honored recommendation is the fact that ranchos are unfenced and animals were often loose on the roads. ❋ Unknown (2010)