And that's a challenge to Scots' time-honoured sense of themselves, as the poor economic cousins.
The bureaucrats are appealing, in time-honoured fashion, to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's road lobby.
In a time-honoured system, an owner hires a captain who in turn provides the crew.
Liberals calling for greater openness are being dealt with in the time-honoured repressive fashion.
Treasury traditionalists may regard these apparently footling changes as a shocking breach of time-honoured tradition.
To enforce its will around the world, Washington has traditionally relied on the time-honoured trade embargo.
And the time-honoured blind date could soon fall out of fashion, if the report's conclusions are correct.
Little wonder that Japanese banks reacted in the time-honoured fashion of banks the world over: lend, lend, lend.
The time-honoured way to make investors careful and managers dutiful is for collapses to happen from time to time.
But Vicente del Bosque, in time-honoured tradition, insists the Scots will pose his players problems when they meet at Hampden in October.
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It regularly skewers those captains of industry and finance who, in the time-honoured German way, strike behind-the-scenes deals with minimal regard for shareholders.
In the meantime, ambitious women would do well to return to a time-honoured but supposedly obsolete tradition, and apply under a male name.
There is therefore a considerable risk that schools will pay lip service to the new reforms while continuing to cram students in the time-honoured fashion.
This hypothesis has the consumer rejecting the last decade's trend towards brand-induced uniformity and techno-production in favour of those time-honoured values of authenticity and individuality.
There are over 30 Assam and Chinese varieties (as well as a wide range of herbal teas), and tea production follows the time-honoured system of hand plucking the bushes.
Some fear the government would lose the ability to put its bills before the House - defying the time-honoured maxim that the government "must get its business".
The time-honoured way for a Republican opposition to undermine a Democratic president is to depict him as profligate with the nation's treasure and careless of its security.
This time, it helps that his opponent is a political neophyte, a personal-injury lawyer continuing the time-honoured tradition of rich trial lawyers morphing into Democratic Senate candidates.
New systems of proportional representation have been introduced for elections in Scotland and Wales, and for the European Parliament, in place of Britain's time-honoured system of first-past-the-post.
There has been a profound loss of cultural creativity, apparent, for example, in the decay of the Islamic city and its time-honoured traditions of craftsmanship, piety and community.
He thinks this time-honoured contest holds lessons for business today.
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While aperitvo is not new to the English capital, in recent years some exciting restaurants have introduced it to their menus, hoping to make the time-honoured European tradition a mainstream London scene.
She then stole the show again on Wednesday when she interrupted one of America's time-honoured political rituals reading the roll call of how each state cast their votes to move that Mr Obama be nominated unanimously.
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Far from being a time-honoured tool for controlling interest rates, the Fed only began paying interest on reserves in 2008 and had little difficulty controlling interest rates prior to the introduction of this policy.
Instead, the conference expressed its feelings in the time honoured way - they gave Mr Blair a half-hearted, half-seated ovation of less than a minute.
Five-time Oscar-winner John Williams is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Classic Brit awards in October.
In recent years, members of Kansas's congressional delegation urged their colleagues to waive the Medal of Honor time limit - three years since the action honoured - for Kapaun.
Two-time Booker winner Hilary Mantel will be honoured once more next month at the 2013 Oxford Literary Festival, organisers have announced.
MSPs, all bar two of whom are new to full-time parliamentary politics, were intent on seeing their manifesto abolition pledge honoured.
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