Tradition in sentence

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Because classical music is an unbroken living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years.

So in the first eight centuries or so of this tradition the big 'what' was to praise God.

These laws fly in the face of science, and they are grounded in prejudice and in ignorance and in a rewriting of tradition and a selective reading of religion.

The good life is a life where design is important because somebody obviously took the time and spent the money for that kind of well-designed chair; where tradition is important, because this is a traditional classic and someone cared about this; and where there is something as conspicuous consumption, where it is OK and normal to spend a humongous amount of money on such a chair, to signal to other people what your social status is.

In Ashanti tradition, for example, the chief cannot make any decision without the concurrence of the council of elders.

And of course it meant that I was a foreigner in both countries, and that of course made it pretty easy for me to migrate as well, in good family tradition, if you like.

In our tradition, there is a ceremony that girls have to undergo to become women, and it's a rite of passage to womanhood.

Once I go through this tradition, I was going to become a wife.

So I went back and I had to go back to the tradition.

They reinstated the tradition of the Q&A after scientific papers were read, which had been discontinued by the Royal Society as being ungentlemanly.

So I am indeed a neurosurgeon, and I follow a long tradition of neurosurgery, and what I'm going to tell you about today is adjusting the dials in the circuits in the brain, being able to go anywhere in the brain and turning areas of the brain up or down to help our patients.

So as I said, neurosurgery comes from a long tradition.

The answer: the tradition has been for researchers to exclude animal scavengers from decomposition studies by placing a cage over the decaying subject matter.

I satisfied my hunger for parental advice from this book by a family of writers and musicians.["Correspondence in the Family of Fou Lei"] I found my role model of an independent woman when Confucian tradition requires obedience.["Jane

One feature is the tradition of religious dualism: Consciousness is not a part of the physical world.

That's the tradition of God, the soul and immortality.

There's another tradition that thinks it's opposed to this but accepts the worst assumption.

That tradition thinks that we are heavy-duty scientific materialists: Consciousness is not a part of the physical world.

Africa has had a long tradition of writing, but this is not such a well-known fact, and I wrote the book "Afrikan Alphabets" to address that.

Ethiopia has had the longest tradition of writing, with the Ethiopic script that was developed in the fourth century A.D. and is used to write Amharic, which is spoken by over 24 million people.

The Vai people of Liberia had a long tradition of literacy before their first contact with Europeans in the 1800s.

Africa has had a long tradition of design, a well-defined design sensibility, but the problem in Africa has been that, especially today, designers in Africa struggle with all forms of design because they are more apt to look outward for influence and inspiration.

The creative spirit in Africa, the creative tradition, is as potent as it has always been, if only designers could look within.

This was a tradition in ancient warfare called single combat.

In this tradition, the bride-to-be displays all of their belongings, which they soon bring to their new husband.

And for doing such a big project, the biggest project I've ever designed, I really needed to understand the city of Tunis, but also its surroundings and the tradition and culture.

Well, the Supreme Court considered this 100-years tradition and said, in an opinion written by Justice Douglas, that the Causbys must lose.

Now sexuality is an incredibly powerful lens with which to study any society, because what happens in our intimate lives is reflected by forces on a bigger stage: in politics and economics, in religion and tradition, in gender and generations.

Going right back to the Prophet Muhammad, there is a rich tradition in Islam of talking frankly about sex: not just its problems, but also its pleasures, and not just for men, but also for women.

For a couple who is no longer sustained, supported by the constraints of tradition, I believe that self-mockery is one of the best means for the relationship to endure.

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