1.   As secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain, he has responsibility for ceremonial duties on state occasions.

2.   The battalion boarded the vehicles to return to Chelsea Barracks, ceremonial duties - and Alice, of course.

3.   Even her ceremonial duties have withered away.

4.   For example, how will she coordinate her ceremonial White House duties with what is expected to be a bruisingly partisan campaign against New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?

5.   He says he planned to curb the many ceremonial duties he performs.

6.   Members of the English royal family, shown discharging their ceremonial duties, look like wind-up dolls surrounded by toy soldiers.

7.   Should there be two presidents, one to make and implement policy decisions and the other to carry out ceremonial duties?

8.   Thurmond recently stopped his ceremonial duty of presiding over the opening of the Senate.

9.   Transgression of a taboo, say, or failure to fulfill ceremonial duties on time, resulted in fines, rituals of appeasement or a period of ostracism.

10.   When deacons die, their wives, some of whom call themselves deaconesses, assume certain ceremonial duties during worship.