11.   It was a familiar ritual in the burgeoning Enron financial scandal.

12.   It was by now a familiar ritual of grief.

13.   Such talk is a familiar ritual the day a big merger is announced and, usually, the gossip is indeed just that.

14.   The morning began with what has become a familiar ritual in the Simpson case.

15.   The service follows the familiar Christian ritual, but the guitars, drums and lilting voices in song echo the sounds of Polynesia.

16.   The water glass became a familiar ritual.

17.   This year, the familiar ritual of Koran recitation is particularly important to Muslims.

18.   We go through a familiar ritual.

19.   When news of the gunfire in the Capitol building swept the country on Friday afternoon, a familiar ritual began.

20.   Without the sometime-hubris that brings a politician into the clutches of the federal government after the familiar ritual of wiretaps, backstabbings, confessions, and denials.