1.   Kumar gave the traditional Hindu greeting.

2.   Mrs Chatterji points the child homeward, then turns to Maya, who has folded her hands in traditional Bengali greeting.

3.   Teacher Izumi Araki and colleague Takago Kaminaga exchange a traditional Japanese greeting with a class at Haywood Lower School in Hereford.

4.   Hand-shaking is uncommon in Japan, where the traditional greeting is the bow.

5.   Last Christmas, the Pope was forced to break off his traditional greetings because of a sudden attack of nausea.

6.   Lutes prefers receiving traditional greetings, even if the sender has written the exact same thing, over and over again, on separate cards.

7.   Others clasped their hands and bowed their heads to me in the traditional greeting.

8.   Others showered the pope with rice and rosewater, a traditional Lebanese greeting, and women ululated in Arab fashion.

9.   Arab religious leaders used traditional Ramadan greetings to pledge support for the Palestinians and push for intervention.

10.   At the clinic, Gates joined his hands in a traditional Indian greeting and bowed.