Sentences with phrase «there is a tradition»

«There's a tradition in America of people of principle when they are sufficiently offended and disagree with their president on matters fundamental resign,» he said.

Religion is man made, but I understand there are traditions and principal the Church feel connected to — so I respect them, but not blindly.

Of course, within this unified tradition, there are traditions that move in different directions on other matters.

In the theater there is a tradition that actors are not to be seen by the audience before or after a performance, and particularly not in costume.

I have a portrait of an ancestor who lost his land to the Crown because he was a Catholic; there is a tradition of an earlier ancestor who lost his life.

Personally, my christmas tree always goes down on January 6th (Twelve days of christmas thing) Depending on when festivus is, and if there are any traditions (twelve days of festivus?)

There is a tradition that Thomas went to southern India and that Bartholomew was martyred in Armenia.

It was the ancestral home of King David, and there was a tradition that the great and future king of Israel would be descended from David.

Childress» argument is an interesting thought experiment, useful if there were no tradition of just war from which contemporary debate on war and morality might take its bearings, but his argument takes no account whatever of that tradition.

There are traditions that Christianity found its way to China in the first century, but the earliest more reliable report is from Arnobius who wrote in 300 AD, stating that the Gospel had been preached in China.

But there was another tradition of political thought also beginning to seep into the American colonies in the early 18th century, one related to Calvinist theology and classical philosophy in curious patterns of attraction and repulsion.

There is a tradition among the Nestorian Christians in Persia that they are the descendants of Israel.

There is a tradition that he founded the school but it is doubtful if he had much to do with the founding of the school.

There is a tradition at Parkminster of faithfulness to the witness of St John Houghton, the Prior of the London Charterhouse who, aged 48 on May 4th 1535, was silent and suffered.

There is a tradition in Irish Christianity of taking pilgrimage to Crough Patrick in County Mayo and hiking to the top barefoot.

There is a tradition which says that during the reign of Yazdegerd I (399 - 420) in Persia, a merchant named Hayyan, from Yemen of the Himyarites kingdom, went to Constantinople.

In countries like Pakistan, there is a tradition called «vani» in which girls as young as 4 are forced into marriage.

There is another tradition about the introduction of Christianity to this area.

There is a tradition in theology which holds that nothing is done without love.

There is a tradition of a Christian king of the Villar Vattam family as the temporal ruler of St. Thomas Christians.

Since there are no tradition - free descriptions, the «neutral» sociologist in the example is also operating from a tradition, most likely positivism.

There's tradition, and then there's Tradition (or «Traditionalism,» as this fascinating survey would have it).

There is a tradition that he tried but was unable to carry it.

Certainly there is a tradition that the defeated heretical monks held a rival council of ten thousand members, known as the Great Council, and drew up a different recension of the scriptures which among other things, according to the Dipavamsa, 1 «broke up the sense and doctrine in the five Nikayas,» and «rejecting some portions of the Sutta and the profound Vinaya, they made another counterfeit Sutta and Vinaya.»

Despite all the changes to the holiday, there are some traditions that last a lifetime.

(Note: This post contains affiliate links) At my former workplace back in Singapore, there's a tradition of bringing treats after a vacation abroad as souvenirs for our colleagues.

I don't think there were any traditions when I had my kids.

As with anything at an old - school counter, there's tradition, and then there's the newfangled way of doing things.

So there's a tradition for Mr. Irrelevant, the final pick in the NFL Draft.

There is a tradition that new players have their debut games at home.

Of course, there's no rule governing how many MNF games an NFL franchise should get and which games should be designated MNF — but still... at least there was a tradition of giving most — possibly all 32 — teams a game.

This is a decent article, yet the negatives from fans are still there, I would love to see arsenal like I did at the end of the 90's and at the beggining of the 2nd millennium but it doesn't mean in order to do so I would buy all the best players in world, I would get a rich owner to put his filthy money in, change the manager every 2 years to do so, there's so much wrong in football nowadays that yes it's still a sport but there's more focus on the filthy amounts of money being spent on clubs and players that I think attracts more attention than the game itself, now that is wrong and it's very wrong, even our owner though not like the arabs or Russians, yet the yank is clueless about the tradition of our game, it's just sad, so the fact that Wenger has remained for this long through all these changes that have occurred whilst the money game has elvolved, it makes me happy that arsenal do not spend stupid amounts of money on players, we don't try and buy the league, hell we even tight with wages and transfer fees, I'm glad it's like that, though our season ticket is a rip off I still don't mind it because at least we are not like the other supreme teams, there's a bit of tradition left at our club, yet you go to man shitty or Chelski, there is no tradition, it's all about buying ur way all the way to the top, on the other hand spuds don't know what to make of them besides how the heck have they finished above us?

Our son just turned three and has been so much more aware of special occasions — his dad's birthday, Halloween, his birthday — that this is the year we can start explaining what Thanksgiving and Christmas are, start helping him to know there are traditions we'll participate in every year.Family traditions feel to me very much a part of creating a secure base, something we can expect to happen, that we can count on doing with the people we love.

There is a tradition of human milk banks in France for the last 70 years and there are now 36 human milk banks that collect, treat and distribute about 70,000 liters of human milk each year.

In the USA there is a tradition of open debate about national security.

There is a tradition in socialism of seeing politics as less important, irrelevant even, when compared to economics.

There is a tradition of debates on the role of the state in Liberal politics that stretches back to the 1870s, but by the early 20th century, social liberalism was dominant.

There's a tradition in Nassau County few residents ever get to see, and yet there it was on silent display Monday, New Year's Day — a reminder that both power and promise are fleeting.

Lehrer then suggested Sanders might be more progressive from the White House than he had to be to represent rural Vermont, where there is a tradition of hunting and support of gun rights.

There is a tradition of Seoul being the capital of Korea, dating back to the 1400s, indeed it's current name means «Capital».

And there's a tradition of sharing information and best practices that's been well - established over the years, spearheaded by left - leaning interest groups and labor unions that began experimenting with voter contact techniques during the George W. Bush years.

In Britain there is a tradition of admiration for the glorious failure, a Nelsonian idea of death in the hour of triumph.

«There's a tradition of trying to hire smart people and then basically leaving them to it,» says Leo James, a group leader in the Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Division.

«There is no tradition of looking at a site from the point of view of a system.»

In India, there is a tradition of using home - made curd as a facepack for various skin aliments.

In addition to curating a collection of beautiful dresses, there's another tradition revered by women the world over: The Spa.

In the past there was a tradition of older men dating younger women that was more acceptable than the reverse.

First, there is tradition.

There's a tradition among purveyors of BDSM pornography to append a coda to their project in which the participants in various potentially alarming scenarios are finally glimpsed, all smiles, reveling in the afterglow of a clearly consensual exercise.

by Bryant Frazer There's a tradition among purveyors of BDSM pornography to append a coda to their project in which the participants in various potentially - alarming scenarios are finally glimpsed, all smiles, revelling in the afterglow of a clearly consensual exercise.