1.   As an annual spring ritual, the festival resembles opening day of tryout season.

2.   For Kentucky, the college basketball tournament is as reliable a spring ritual as the Kentucky Derby.

3.   For some, though, the Washington trek is a spring ritual that still rings as a college pilgrimage.

4.   It becomes a spring ritual.

5.   Limited by the number of folks who care to climb Washington with their skis in a pack for the real spring ritual of the sport.

6.   More recently, she has devised spring rituals in honor of the earth and has led workshops in which people with cancer or AIDS explore their feelings through dance.

7.   And so, in this land where baseball always came for its spring ritual of renewal, the game has returned this fall to decide a champion.

8.   For the second straight year, the Bengals opened the American gridiron spring ritual of restocking its pro ranks with the graduating college talent.

9.   In what has become almost an annual spring ritual, several dozen political activists have been rounded up in recent weeks for questioning.

10.   By early afternoon, the wind was beginning to pick up as Beijing residents rushed home to shut windows and brace for what has become a spring ritual.