Sentences with phrase «family is a tradition»

In Ayoe's family it is tradition to eat liver pâté around Christmas time (and also some other times a year).

The ability to heal yourself and family is a tradition that is as old as motherhood itself.

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MADD Coffee is a company founded from the Guatemalan family tradition of coffee bean farming and roasting.

Recipes, tricks of the trade, family traditions all matter a great deal to whatever a small food outlet is doing.

«As with many families across the country, holiday traditions are very important to us.

They have been successful in that kind of an environment and those are the kinds of people that are attracted to aviation,» says Stonecipher, who is not himself a veteran but has grown up in a family that made it a tradition to give back to those who served.

In a family business, your employees aren't just working for a corporation, they are working to carry on the family tradition and contribute to the family legacy.

They found that whites were overly associated with categories like nostalgia (craftspeople and tradition), natural (wholesome foods, agriculture) and the stereotypical nuclear family.

Kev is continuing the «work with family tradition» by bringing on his daughter as Business Development Director at the age of 23.

It's tradition for the royal bride and groom to gather the whole family for a wedding portrait.

While tradition normally says the bride's family pays for the wedding, that doesn't hold up if her groom is royal.

And there is some truth to that, though the other ingredients of this great American tradition — a giant meal, an inundation of family, a frantic cleaning of a home in anticipation of an inundation of family — may exhaust you as well.

She's also focusing on other family traditions they have around the holidays, such as baking cookies with her grandkids and her annual Christmas party.

In keeping with McArdle family tradition, I was duly dispatched at the tender age of 8 by my stoic father and weeping mother to a British boarding school, there to learn independence and gentlemanly conduct in a setting unchanged since the glory days of the Empire.

One theory (alluded to in the Clarkson report) has to do with managing for the long run: a company rooted in a family's history, tradition and reputation may well be less susceptible to the short - termism that is so notoriously a factor at most corporations today.

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.

New Canadians work hard to learn our languages, our values, and our traditions, and in turn, are welcomed as equal members of the Canadian family.

«They are always an opportunity to celebrate family, friends and religious traditions that mean so much to many of us,» she said.

Families with children age 13 and under are eligible to participate in the tradition, which dates to 1878 and the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.

To this day, descendants of Thompson Willett are still carrying on the family tradition of making fine Kentucky Bourbon and Kentucky Rye Whiskey at the same spot that Thompson and his family operated over 80 years ago.

Jeff Parker, 55, of Madison, said working for Oscar Mayer has been his family's tradition.

As the only licensed producer applicant in British Columbia's renowned «Golden Mile», our 290 - acre facility in the South Okanagan Valley is celebrated for its ideal climate conditions, honoring this region's tradition of excellence and a family legacy that has grown here for more than 120 years.

On Christmas morning, they eagerly open their presents from their grandmother in what is now a very special family tradition.

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.»

Get to know a refugee family who is new to your area and trade traditions.

That was the last time Stelios had an active role in shipping, parting with the family tradition that has many other Haji - Ioannou family members actively involved in that activity.

According to the natural law tradition, a right is a spiritual entitlement, a moral power to do (e.g., to walk in one's garden), hold (e.g., to keep a family heirloom), or exact something (e.g., to demand the payment of a debt).

Since the family is the prime unit in the transmission of tradition (indeed, tradition itself has little meaning for those uprooted from family), it stands to reason that the grave familial problems our society faces can be effectively approached only within the context of tradition.

Lasch reminds us that the corrosion of our democratic way of life and especially our public discourse has its roots in widespread distrust of our institutions and the traditions around which they have developed and of which they are the expressions — whether the family, church, and local communities, or private enterprise and all the various levels of government.

I'm there because I come from that culture, and it's the tradition of my family.

Failing that our families, those we leave behind, should have the choice as they are the ones who will be seeking the comfort of those traditions.

Marriage is a source of proles — children who carry on the family name and tradition, perpetuate the human species, and fill God's Church with the next generation of saints.

The other tradition is his mother's family which is middle - class bourgeois New Orleans Catholic.»

But the Western tradition has seen that marriage and family are indispensable to the integrity of the individual and the preservation of the social order.

This gourmet store at the center of hip Brooklyn bills itself as being «based on old - world ideals with a loyalty to our family... dedicated to the time honored traditions of the culinary and agricultural world.»

For some, that tradition comes from their family, for others, it is based on their pastor or denomination from which they grew up in, others may not have a tradition to draw on altogether.

When you add that up, it begins to look a little institutional (Webster defines as: «a custom, practice, or law that is accepted and used by many people» So my physical family is an institution and we have customs and practices and traditions over many years.

I think why you didn't see people move from the church because they are «Presbyterians» People who go to the main line churches are often there because of tradition within their families.

A Gallup Poll conducted just before last Christmas, meanwhile, shows that the most popular American Christmas traditions are exchanging gifts, putting up a tree, and spending time with family and friends.

Steven T. Schlicht's family (pictured above) are among the nonbelievers who shared their secular holiday traditions with iReport.

It is definitely tough to be around people who display Christianity as works based, tradition based, family based, etc..

We owe to them the tradition of decorating a tree, eating turkey, and the sense that Christmas is a time to retreat to a domestic idyll with family and bolt the door on whatever turbulent political or economic changes are raging outside.

There is one further point to be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights of the Christian tradition in its best moments, and into relation with the convictions of the wisest men and women — past and present, in our own family, of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.

Parents and families need to be re-educated in Catholic family prayer and tradition, and in how to invite Christ into every aspect of their lives through prayer, penance and sacrifice — there is much to do.

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.

Church tradition tells us that that the disciples of Christ had families, but they still were willing to be martyred and die for Christ, leaving their families behind.

In addition to sociology, tradition, and biblical authority there is Luther's teaching on marriage and family life.

When I left the traditions of my family and when more mainstream, I have been pleasantly surprised by the stories of women in the Bible.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

My great grandfather was a Baptist minister and on New Year's Day, so runs the family tradition, he used to call on all the members of his parish, and at every house, according to the hospitable custom of the time, he took his whiskey, until at night, happily mellow, he returned home amid the benedictions of his flock.