1.   As in Northern Ireland, tradition holds weight, meaning Catholics cannot simply wish away the desire of Protestants to march.

2.   BETHLEHEM, West Bank The site that tradition holds as the birthplace of Jesus had seemed like a safe haven.

3.   A tradition holds that when St. Therese heals or blesses someone, that person receives a rose, or is aware of the scent of the flower.

4.   After the mass Thursday, the pope prayed quietly at lakeside churches where tradition holds that Christ performed many of his miracles.

5.   But the tradition still holds.

6.   Family tradition once held that the sauna was built before the house.

7.   If tradition holds, probably not.

8.   In the cobblestone Manger Square, tanks idle and train their long barrels on the door of the church where tradition holds Jesus was born.

9.   In the United States, however, tradition long held that sports occupied the merely physical realm and was not worthy of real scholarship.

10.   It covered the cobblestones of the Via Dolorosa, the path that tradition holds Jesus walked before he was crucified.