rite of passage

The visit to Ireland, particularly, is seen as something of a rite of passage for all American presidents.

We've got to dispel the myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage -- that it's some inevitable part of growing up.

Little is known about this rite of passage, and that alone would be cause for dread.

Leaving home has long been a rite of passage from childhood to adulthood. You get a job. You get an apartment. And you make it on your own.

It has also been a rite of passage for young Americans for nearly a century.

Needless to say, the mask of a Jaguar Warrior often hides numerous scars earned during this perilous rite of passage.

It has become a rite of passage for any aspiring politician to turn up and stroke a cow's bottom or clutch a piglet.

It used to be that a paper route or an after-school job at the local grocer was viewed as a rite of passage for young people.

It was perhaps listening to Tequila Sunrise that you first experienced that adult rite of passage of drinking a heart warming spirit.

Mom and her eleven little hatchlings. After a rite of passage like this one, they're ready for absolutely anything.

Eclipses often create a key marker point - a rite of passage - and each of these examples would fit that.

But this rite of passage is increasingly controversial, much to the dismay of sports officials.

A tradition from the ancient days when all Elves were one people, every Dark Elf goes through a rite of passage to adulthood.

When a Jewish boy turns 13, he heads to a temple for a deeply meaningful rite of passage, his bar mitzvah[1].

That being said, I feel that learning with books is as important a rite of passage as learning to eat with utensils and being potty-trained.

Backpacking through a foreign country is not only a rite of passage but also a way to see the world and oneself from a new perspective.

Meanwhile, intelligence community officials have begun another presidential rite of passage.

Young as we were, we knew that being in a gang was nothing more than a rite of passage.

Dissecting a human body knowing only its age and sex is a "rite of passage" that gives many medical students disturbing "cadaver dreams" .

The prom is an important rite of passage. I didn't want you to miss anything.

THE main rite of passage in a young South Korean man's life is his two-year period of compulsory military service.

but repetitive stress from computers is replacing breaking an arm as a children rite of passage.

However, through the rite of passage to join the Lions group, the lion has not passed.

The past four prime ministers hailed from wealthy political dynasties, among which the premiership was almost a filial rite of passage.

Yet the mailroom has become a rite of passage in Hollywood and anyone worth their salt in the industry will have passed through one .

However, using smoking as a rite of passage to the grown-up world is becoming less popular.

The rite of passage was conducted on the bitterly cold asphalt of the Golden Valley driver's course.

Driving fast is no longer a rite of passage.

Working after school has become almost a rite of passage for teens in the U.

Once a short-term commitment at most, internships have become an obligatory rite of passage that often drags on for years.

In Transkei, I witnessed a rite of passage into manhood, of the Xhosa tribe.

PLAYING football in the driving rain, with the mud flying, is a rite of passage for teenagers the world over.

A college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

For many American teenagers, the high-school prom is a rite of passage on the path to adulthood.

Ancient rite of passage was intended to ban under-age sex with the marriages.

Babysitting is a rite of passage for many girls in junior high school.

The prom is an important rite of passage.

Grunt must take part in a rite of passage with Shepard at his side to prove himself a worthy krogan and join a clan, or die in the attempt.

For some unmarried women there is a time in their late 20s and early 30s when being a bridesmaid becomes a rite of passage.

In other cultures, it's a rite of passage into manhood.

It is merely a rite of passage everyone must experience.

Yes, it is a rite of passage for these two young people, but it is also very important for their parents.

Maybe I'm making too big a deal about something which is a normal male rite of passage.

It's almost a rite of passage into frugality.

The minimum-wage job is a rite of passage.

I had forgotten about the rite of passage.

We will hold the rite of passage in the morning!

It's a rite of passage, but also one you want to do very infrequently.

to whom coming out is a relatively easy rite of passage rather than a step over a cliff;

reform taxes to attract superstars; make study abroad a rite of passage for college students;

What is it? What is this rite of passage?