shibboleth

It is one of the shibboleths by which he may be known.

If we are prepared to look past shibboleths, one answer should come to mind.

They are afraid there might be some truth in the old shibboleths.

And in seeking them, some of the old shibboleths fell, but to my amazement they did not break.

The 20th-century's old shibboleths, at any rate, make less sense every year.

Cultural touchstones and shared experience can also be shibboleths of a sort.

A new synthesis is developing, beneath the familiar party structures and shibboleths.

Yet there is also an America locked in rigid certainties and shibboleths.

A microphone concealed in the tunnel had conveyed their shibboleths before them.

For some, it was the opportunity to revive old shibboleths about a global "them" versus "us."

Today's challenge goes well beyond the old shibboleths of level playing fields, competitiveness and protectionism.

In the 1920's almost every state had its shibboleths about what was appropriate and inappropriate for the screen.

Shibboleths have been used by different subcultures throughout the world at different times.

He wrote against what he called the shibboleths and crutches of modern architecture.

Shibboleths fell: not having periods is not all right.

Can we look forward to the Guardian applying the same efficacious technique to some its other shibboleths?

Regional differences, level of expertise and computer coding techniques are several forms that shibboleths have taken.

Ego crops out and wants to kick the State and all its shibboleths.

It's the conservative version of liberal shibboleths like "Make love, not war" - and equally hollow.

Free-trade shibboleths provide no answers, she says, and nor does heavy-handed protection.

It knocked down some fashion shibboleths and established some guides for the future.

One of their shibboleths was that the office should seek the man and not the man the office.

Inventive, original, deeply critical of inherited shibboleths, he's not "post" anything.

As he points out, what we now agree are American masterpieces of the 20th century became so by shattering shibboleths.

"Today those traits have been replaced with another set of shibboleths: integrity, authenticity, discipline.