Sentences with phrase «calling it a tradition»

After a few years we were calling it a tradition: Fr.

Right we have allowed PC politics to stop calling our traditions what they are and allow them to declare theirs with pride.

A corporate memory handed down from generation to generation becomes what we call a tradition.

The zealous components of our American ideals had triumphed over what I would call the tradition of «prophetic realism,» our commitment to coexistence under law.

This book is at once a protest and a lamentation against what might be called the tradition of traditionless evangelicalism.

I call this tradition liberal because some of its leading theorists, such as J.S. Mill and James Meade, identified as liberals and because the Liberal party in the UK historically drew on and contributed to it.

The Virgin of Carmen de Paucartambo is a holiday celebrated not only with much religiosity but rather with a fervor that comes from something more than the desire of a people of honoring to a sacred image of 1.32 m of height; in Paucartambo when homage is paid to the Mamacha del Carmen is celebrated something more than a Catholic rite; is celebrated a collective idea might be called tradition!

By the year 2006, CC began the construction of their newest master planned community located west of the Interstate 95 intersection of Gatlin Blvd called Tradition.

«I call it tradition with a twist.»

I mean, it's the second fall we've been in this 1800's farmhouse of ours so it can be called a tradition now right?

Not exact matches

On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing.

If Khloe goes with a K name for her daughter, she would be the only one of her siblings to buck their tradition of calling their kids names that begin with letters that aren't a K.

Later Jennings complained, in the tradition of Ada Lovelace, that many of the newspaper reports overstated what ENIAC could do by calling it a «giant brain» and implying that it could think.

In business, we have a terrible tradition going back at least as far as Frederick Taylor (yes, the «Taylorism» Taylor) that jobs are things done by employees, but designed by their so - called superiors.

Scholars have called attention to the manipulative function of these and other invented traditions.

Janna Drucker, the founder of a Parkland boutique called Fannies Finds, has a tradition of slipping small trinkets emblazoned with motivational quotes into customers» bags when she senses they're having a hard time.

We called «Coco» a «fantastic family - friendly feast for the eyes and the heart» and it's in part thanks to the vibrant colors, sounds, and traditions of the Mexican holiday of El Día de los Muertos it centers around.

That time period in ancient China, by the way, corresponds with what is called the Spring and Autumn Period (about 771 to 476 B.C.), which tradition associates with the Chinese teacher and philosopher Confucius, one of the first to espouse the principle:

Universal to all faith traditions is the call to safeguard our personal health and the health of others as a moral obligation.

The Bank called Governors» Day a «long - held tradition that is open to all employees — including members of the Monetary Policy Committee — including their families, with the aim of recognising their hard work and dedication... The annual event is an important one for all Bank employees and the Bank strongly believes that this carefully budgeted event is worthwhile.»

Swahili is influenced by the confluence of what the late African studies professor Ali Mazrui called the «triple heritage,» namely the indigenous Bantu languages and identity, Islamic religion, and Western traditions.

In our engagement with China in Canada, respecting Canada's sovereignty and traditions is no less essential and calls us to uphold principles of intellectual freedom, civil society, and human rights through enforcement of our legal and regulatory standards.

But in fairness, Harper has only been following a long tradition of administering what one wag has called the «taskless thanks.»

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

Atlanta (CNN)-- According to Jewish tradition, a boy becomes a man at 13, when he's called before his community to read from the Torah and become a bar mitzvah, meaning «son of the commandments.»

In the nineteenth - century movement for German unification, the inhabitants of the left bank of the Rhine tended to favor the so - called «Greater German Solution» that called for a de-centralized, subsidiary German nation, which would include Austria and Bohemia, and be under Habsburg leadership, thus continuing the traditions of the Holy Roman Empire.

Thus he was part of the broad, humanistic, and stoic (and, later, Christian) tradition of the West — one that valued basic natural rights and was incessantly called into question by variations of utilitarian and utopian thinking.

It was a Tocquevillian call to check the unbridled assertion of individualistic rights with the claims of community, tradition, and personal responsibility.

As Griffiths notes, Christ's work in overcoming the power of the devil is surely glorious, and calling it so «is deeply rooted in that tradition.»

She reclaims a long tradition in philosophical and theological ethics that she calls the ethics of «responsibility.»

The Mexicans had a very nice god called Quetzalcoatl, «the mysterious Christlike figure of indigenous tradition.»

In particular, we pray for peace in Ukraine, a country of ancient Christian tradition, while we call upon all parties involved to pursue the path of dialogue and of respect for international law in order to bring an end to the conflict and allow all Ukrainians to live in harmony.

According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, the one called St.Augustine's «mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy; and it was also the means by which the product of this fusion was transmitted to the Christendoms of medieval Roman Catholicism and Renaissance Protestantism.»

In the best tradition of all religious «wisdom literature» or scriptures, as true believers like to call them, are widely common source or plagiarized as non-believers like to call it.

An entire people was mesmerized by the rupture of a culture and a tradition that were entitled to be called the best in Western civilization but that ended up as the worst ever in Western civilization.

Perhaps most interesting is Kasper's view of relations with the communities issuing from the sixteenth - century Reformation, often called the classic or mainline Protestant traditions.

Too many lies along with Pagan traditions ad Greek mythology are taught in the churches today (Christmas, Easter, Eternal torment in Hell, etc.) This evil plague called religion must go.

The spiritual and cultural traditions of vast regions of the West are increasingly being called into question; indeed, we can go even further and say they are being liquidated, quickly and relatively painlessly.

Santmire quite proudly calls himself a «revisionist,» distinguishing his course from those he calls «apologists»» that is, «defenders of the classical Christian tradition,» chief among them this reviewer (I take the term as one of honor, fidei defensor).

My first call out of seminary was to a «seeker friendly» congregation within my tradition that was founded by an abusive pastor.

Fundamentalist Mormons say the apostles who'd been called by Taylor to perpetuate plural marriages later called new men to carry on the tradition.

While this isn't intended as a rallying call for the masses to embrace Jesus, it's actually fantastic theology it speaks of the sort of living faith that perhaps Brand doesn't realise is perfectly possible within the Christian tradition.

22.25, where the disciples are told not to be like the euergetai of the gentiles but is also implied in the various traditions within the New Testament which call for a mutual ethic amongst the believers which undermines the need for patronage.

Even If the due - process provision calls on the court to protect rights recognized by tradition or widespread consensus, there is a problem with Roe: it involved neither Antiabortion laws were decades old, and although a few states had partly decriminalized abortion, Roe went much further and struck down laws in virtually every state.

By calling the unknown God (especially in the Judeo - Christian tradition) you are making some great leaps of logic that I don't think are justified.

In sum, McDermott's probing analysis of history, tradition, and orthodoxy never calls the issue what it is: Evangelicals can't define or describe the church beyond personal piety.

The birth of Jesus calls our attention to God's tradition of selecting representatives and partners from lowly places.

Alexander III, following the ancient tradition of the Church declared that «After a lawfully accorded consent affecting the present, it is allowed to one of the parties, even against the will of the other, to choose a monastery (just as certain saints have been called from marriage), provided that carnal intercourse shall not have taken place between them; and it is allowed to the one who is left to proceed to a second marriage» (III Decretal., xxxii, 2).

We still call ourselves Christian and Hindu, but we've taken each tradition's rich, valuable practices, and adopted them for our mutual spiritual path.

It was founded in response to a call from St John Paul II to tackle two specific issues: the crisis in marriage and the family, and the need to bring the traditions of Western and Eastern Christianity in Europe together following the collapse of Communism.