shibboleth in English

noun
1
a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important.
the party began to break with the shibboleths of the left

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1. I am looking to add a new feature to integrate Shibboleth (Open source) into our website. The ideal candidate will have experience intergrating Shibboleth before.

2. The ideal candidate will have experience intergrating Shibboleth before.

3. Another Western shibboleth about the future will thereby fall.

4. They would say to him, Then say, Shibboleth.

5. Notice that in each case the objection is based on a shibboleth.

6. Apparently, to wear a hat in the cafeteria was a student shibboleth.

7. I am looking to add a new feature to integrate Shibboleth (Open source) into our website.

8. It is time to go beyond the shibboleth that conventional forces cannot deter.

9. Synonyms for Banality include cliche, cliché, platitude, truism, bromide, trope, commonplace, shibboleth, homily and groaner

10. Synonyms for Catchline include slogan, motto, watchword, catchphrase, saying, byword, proverb, shibboleth, catchword and formula

11. Shibboleth is an Open Source project that provides federated identity and access control between academic institutions.

12. Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right.

13. Even their commitment to abolishing university tuition fees, a shibboleth in a party with a large student following, may be wavering.

14. To identify Ephraimites trying to flee across the Jordan River, the Gileadites used the password “Shibboleth,” which had an initial “sh” sound.

15. Liberals are especially careful to make the right noises: obeisance to the uniform having become the shibboleth of patriotism, as anti-Communism used to be.

16. The men of Ephraim betrayed themselves to the Gileadite sentries at the fords of the Jordan by saying “Sibboleth” instead of “Shibboleth,” mispronouncing the opening sound of the word.

17. 24 Liberals are especially careful to make the right noises: obeisance to the uniform having become the shibboleth of patriotism, as anti-Communism used to be.

18. In the first four weeks after its opening, two years ago, 15 people were hurt while viewing Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth, a giant crack cut into the floor of the hall.