Costly drinking vessels of this kind were among the diplomatic gifts traditionally bestowed on native chiefs.

He had just posed for pictures with a celebrity visitor, the singer Ricky Martin, who left wearing a long white scarf called a kata that is traditionally bestowed as a blessing.

In 2005, Paisley was made a Privy Counsellor, an appointment traditionally bestowed upon leaders of political parties in the British Parliament.

The popes have traditionally bestowed the use of the umbraculum as a mark of honor upon specific persons and places.

The blessing of the fleet, traditionally bestowed by a Roman Catholic priest, dates at least to 16th-century Spain, and continues today as fishermen set off each season to hunt their dangerous catch.

And the runners will have been warned not to eat the orange slices or drink the cups of water that are traditionally bestowed on them by spectators along the way.

Here in this citadel, however, no matter how noisy, smoky, or unruly it may at certain hours of the day become, the stability and calm traditionally bestowed by Buddha the Banker somehow has prevailed.

But the political impact was lessened by benefits that both colonial powers have traditionally bestowed on their subjects there.

Panchen means 'great scholar' and the title was traditionally bestowed on abbots of.

The cowl is traditionally bestowed upon the monk at the time of making solemn, or lifetime, profession.