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having a professional knowledge and familiarity with local language, laws and customs

The specific characteristics, traditions and customs vary from one region to another.

Over the last seventeen years this addiction was established through daily negotiations with life s routine.

Such symbiosis requires a healthy disregard for convention.

The main enemy lies in deep seated mentalities, habits, and routines.

However, the impact of traditional values and customs continued to be felt.

Because it's by challenging the way things are always done is that we are able to break out of the rut that we're in and create innovative solutions to problems of today.

The sixth cluster of the European Social Fund's objective 3 programme is for combining work and care (sometimes called daily routine').

In some of areas of Madagascar, circumcision is also a tradition.

We find ourselves in the paralyzing grip of self destructive habits we can't break.

These leaders already know the tribal chiefs, spiritual leaders, and tribal customs and codes.

This strategy amounts to state capitalism, living on Russia s energy wealth, and doing nothing to curtail Russia s massive red tape and corruption.

At the group level, acculturation often results in changes to culture, customs, and social institutions.

Our past has built up layer upon layer of instincts, propensities, habits of thought, patterns of interaction, and material resources.

That landmark resolution is a challenge to us all, for it requires a fundamental change in procedure, delivery, attitudes and habits.

Excessive red tape and ineffective enforcement of competition policy and governance rules are hampering entrepreneurship throughout the region.

There are no easy ways out of underdevelopment without challenging traditional lifestyles, customs, and social relations.

Mao also ordered the country to destroy the Four Olds old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.

Middle Eastern countries should protect and consolidate women s rights as a way to reinforce democratic ideas and habits.

Unlike most western European examples, the Ottoman ruling class included a wide variety of people and cultural traditions.

Today, less than 1 of the population can be identified as fully indigenous on the basis of language and customs.

Sixty one groups had been identified as indigenous nationalities on the basis of, inter alia, mother tongue, traditional rights and customs.

The postcards provide a rare glimpse of Vietnamese landscapes, indigenous traditions, commerce, and life in colonial city centers.

A society's attitudes, preferences, biases and prejudices develop over centuries and are the product of a complex mix of culture, history, custom and religion.

This operation was created by Dan Ingalls, Larry Tesler, Bob Sproull, and Diana Merry at Xerox PARC in November 1975 for the Smalltalk 72 system.

Complaints about crime and unfamiliar customs were often dismissed by liberal elites as racism.

A land divided by caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, custom, and costume is united in consensus around a great conviction cricket.

To make matters more confusing, differences in cultural attributes, manners and even culinary taste made for much discussion and at times, misunderstandings.

Its vision statement makes express reference to the quality of people's lives and respect for indigenous and other values, customs and traditions.

Regional identity, cultural diversity, and traditional arts and customs have been buried under concrete, steel, and glass all over China.

Inside the home though, especially among traditional families, you get the same sense of ceremony, tradition and hospitality that you may find in a Saudi home.

They are entities that comprise elements of history, geography, ethnicity, religion, customs and politics, and are therefore greatly diversified within themselves.

Well, it sort of turns out that we need rules to help us break the old rules and norms that otherwise we might bring to the creative process.

And the point is that, for boys, the way that they exist and the culture that they embrace isn't working well in schools now.

Nutrition services services that help address the nutritional needs of children that include identifying feeding skills, feeding problems, food habits, and food preferences.

In order to attract foreign investment, the government has made improvement in reducing red tape resulted from excessive government regulations making the country one of the least bureaucratic places to do business in the region.

As the 2003 World Public Sector Report13 points out, the use of internet based services as a way to cut red tape or to spread digital infrastructure has expanded rapidly throughout public sectors in recent years.

Geographical variation in eating was primarily the result of differences in climate, political administration, and local customs that varied across the continent.

In pursuing its work in the field, the Registry is adapting its working methods to the realities on the ground, keeping mindful of local cultures and customs.

What is fuelling this child kidnapping? Thanks to the one child policy, and Chinese traditions placing huge pressure on families to have sons, stolen children are often sold into new families.