Tradition in sentence

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But there is a strong tradition in American jurisprudence of having discussions with people who have been charged with crimes in order to, if it benefits the government, to get something out of that, that there's always room for that kind of discussion.

There's a long tradition in Asian culture that celebrates the fluid mystery of gender.

The world is a far better place because of the philanthropists of the past, and the U.S. tradition here, which is the strongest, is the envy of the world.

So last October, in gentleman scholar tradition, I put the entire collection online as "Museum of Four in the Morning."

And his grandfather, who was a wise man, said, "Oh, so you belong to the atheist branch of the Hindu tradition."

Now there's a difficulty with proceeding in that way, which is that Christianity is extremely, even on that list, it's an extremely specific tradition.

You couldn't give an account of the natural world that didn't say something about its relationship, for example, to the creation story in the Abrahamic tradition, the creation story in the first book of the Torah.

So there's a big change, and that division, that intellectual division of labor occurs as I say, I think, and it sort of solidifies so that by the end of the 19th century in Europe, there's a real intellectual division of labor, and you can do all sorts of serious things, including, increasingly, even philosophy, without being constrained by the thought, "Well, what I have to say has to be consistent with the deep truths that are given to me by our religious tradition."

The list by Lake Superior State University continues a fairly long tradition in English of complaints about new words.

And of course, this is what wise beings through the centuries from every tradition have been telling us.

And now, the tradition belongs to these brown and black people, and they use it.

And it was Octavius who destroyed this tradition.

His legacy was an empire that would go on to wage endless conquest until it collapsed, and a tradition of military autocracy.

But though they adapted, they maintained the warrior tradition and conquering spirit of their Viking forebears.

Now, there was no tradition of wearing trilbies in Jamaica.

They invented that tradition for their arrival here.

And I understood that could also represent the rift between one generation and the next, between people like me and my father's generation, but there's no tradition in Caribbean life of memoirs or biographies.

It was a tradition that you didn't chat about your business in public.

In New Zealand, Dr. Lianne Parkin and her team tested an old tradition in her city.

The tradition that they tested, they tested by asking people who were on their way to work in the morning, to stop and try something out.

The tradition is that in the winter, in that city, you wear your socks on the outside of your boots.

From existing oral tradition, audiences knew the tales of the long siege, the epic duels outside the city walls, and the cunning trick that finally won the war.

I got to see the beautiful tradition and its magic fade in front of me when I saw that the birth of a girl child was celebrated with sadness, when women were told to have patience as their main virtue.

When our relatives die, we can't take care of them as our tradition demands.

And as you come from the north, it is all masonry growing out of the sand cliffs as you come from the Himalayas and evoking the tradition of the fortress.

Or imagine mothers on opposite sides of a conflict somewhere in the world sitting down not to talk about that conflict but to find out who they are as people, and in doing so, begin to build bonds of trust; or that someday it becomes a tradition all over the world that people are honored with a StoryCorps interview on their 75th birthday; or that people in your community go into retirement homes or hospitals or homeless shelters or even prisons armed with this app to honor the people least heard in our society and ask them who they are, what they've learned in life, and how they want to be remembered.

BF: You know, over the years, every year at the conference, it's kind of become a tradition for us to do something dangerous with Richard.

It is a tragic story about an appalling tradition.

I would have said just to be a good pastor, to be able to be with people through all the passages of life, to preach messages that would have an everyday meaning for folks, and in the African-American tradition, to be able to represent the community that I serve.

The tradition and grand narrative of Braddock is mostly comprised of stories of industrialists and trade unions.

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