1.   Squatting, she performed the familiar ritual of menstruation.

2.   And they also reverted to their familiar rituals.

3.   But Nepal, however much it clings to familiar rituals, is modernizing.

4.   But the stories play out like familiar rituals, and this latest entry reassuringly provides more of the same.

5.   But they were excited to be there, taking part in a familiar political ritual.

6.   Farmers in Britain and France have begun the familiar ritual of burning carcasses in response to fears of an epidemic.

7.   Hazing is a familiar ritual on many campuses.

8.   In fact, Foxwoods is designed to trigger all sorts of familiar American spending rituals.

9.   In a familiar ritual here, some protesters marched to Israeli guard positions on the outskirts of Palestinian areas and threw stones and firebombs.

10.   In recent months, the familiar ritual, sad if no longer much of a mystery, began to unfold again for Lawrence Taylor.