11.   Old traditions such as these die hard.

12.   On the East Coast, especially, traditions die hard.

13.   Or it may simply mean that hoary political tradition dies hard.

14.   Phoebe Goodman, director of the Nassau Citizens Budget Commission, a nonprofit watchdog group, said traditions die hard.

15.   Some traditions die unmourned.

16.   Some traditions never die.

17.   Some of the young men who entered Wentworth as junior high students hate to see that tradition die.

18.   That tradition died Wednesday, when Rep. Logan, the first African-American to achieve the position, also became the first speaker-designate to be ousted.

19.   Those traditions die hard, Paikan said.