1.   As a sign of their anger, demonstrators recently hurled soybeans at the ministry, adopting a ritual usually carried out at home to drive out devils.

2.   Many adopt American rituals like the senior prom as their own cultural birthright.

3.   The largest branch of Judaism, predisposed to dismiss religious ceremony as superstition, has begun to adopt rituals it once scorned.

4.   They sent missionaries, they borrowed ideas, they adopted rituals.