1.   Analyzing the Tony nominations is an annual rite on Broadway.

2.   As the pyrocentric event grew into an annual rite, authorities told Harvey to take his followers elsewhere.

3.   Ballet as an annual rite is not ballet as part of a living art.

4.   Before long, a trip to Christmas Tree Lane was an annual rite for many area families.

5.   Boeheim pointed out that it has been some time since a Big East school has advanced to a Final Four, almost an annual rite in the past.

6.   A memorandum asking commissioners to scour their departments for cuts has become an annual rite under Giuliani before he unveils his budget proposals.

7.   A voracious and eclectic reader, Clinton has made the release of his summer reading list something of an annual rite.

8.   But it really has the smell of political and possibly racial hysteria, almost an annual rite of spring but not nearly as affirming as the blossoming of daffodils.

9.   But the snow was mostly melted, so teenagers and adults alike insisted on observing this annual rite of spring.

10.   Consider it another annual rite of spring passage.