Sentences with phrase «long tradition as»

Tamarindo Beach has a long tradition as a beach vacation spot, primarily among tourists from North America.

Hotel Metropole Hanoi has had a long tradition as a luxury venue for prestigious events and as a popular rendezvous for travelers on business and leisure.

Universities have a long tradition as being repositories of knowledge, and, centers for advanced education, scholarly studies, and scientific research.

New Jersey has a long tradition as a heavily unionized state, and Christie — perhaps bowing to political realities — has been courting many private sector unions in his re-election campaign.

Not exact matches

Some say one long - term scenario has Canadians making a final toast to the 200 - year - old brewer, as the Molson and Coors families turn their back on generations of tradition and sell out to one of the giants.

The worlds of Formula One, cycling, and darts have a long tradition of using pretty, scantily - clad women as window - dressing on the sidelines and podiums.

Now, following pushback from broadcasters and event sponsors, that tradition is starting to fade, and progressive activists are delighted that women are no longer being treated as objects.

There is a long tradition in political philosophy that understands injustice as unequal treatment without justification.

Think about Uber's recent branding overhaul as just one contemporary example in a long tradition of rebranding.

Unfortunately, there's a long tradition in Canada of viewing whatever the U.S. is doing as the upper limit to our own ambitions on clean growth.

There is a long tradition in American history of business leaders as statesmen and moral leaders.

Just as we no longer have a code for the proper treatment of slaves, even though it's laid out specifically in the Bible, so we no longer adhere to other archaic thinking and traditions.

That does not amount to a long tradition of treating sodomy as a right, but it does suggest a widespread (although not unanimous) consensus that the state should not criminalize such private conduct in the home.

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

The intention of the series is to reclaim, at long last, the Bible as the book of the Church's living tradition.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

The answer is pretty specific and pretty basic and it has to do with human sexuality, as that is how LGTQ, or current label differ from long - held teaching and tradition, and also what nature would seem to indicate.

Process thought is congenial to working within and from the tradition as long as that includes an emphasis on the dynamic character of tradition.

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

Thus, these monks are continuing a long line of false religions and traditions that will be dealt with by God just before the battle of Armageddon (Rev 16:14, 16), as seen at Revelation 18.

Was not something important lost in not being more consciously Jewish in the way Georgetown declares itself the «heir to the long and rich Catholic and Jesuit tradition of caring for the sick,» as it says on its website?

The Qur» an, which was revealed almost fourteen centuries ago, and the Traditions concerning the Prophet who lived that long ago exclusively in a desert society can not serve as explicit guides for every situation which might arise centuries later, and especially in the complex societies of the present day.

The argument of socialism's impracticality is nonsense which can be sustained only so long as one is ignorant of the variety and complexity of the socialist tradition.

We were told to see the long hours that physicians and medical students invest in the service of science and patients as an expression of this venerable tradition of healing.

Yet even a modest familiarity with the Scholastic tradition may lead one to wonder how many of the proposals offered as needed trinitarian novelties, here and elsewhere, have already been scrutinized, and perhaps found wanting, by the long departed inhabitants of that mostly uncharted land.

Tradition is no longer a taboo word and traditional forms of prayer are once more being rediscovered and recognised as a treasure store and a priceless patrimony handed on to us by the saints of God across the ages.

«Indiana has a long tradition of opening our arms and homes to refugees from around the world but, as governor, my first responsibility is to ensure the safety and security of all Hoosiers.»

More exactly, they are rooted in those texts as they have been conventionally used over long periods of time within the communities» common life; they are rooted in scripture - in - tradition.

Whether «holocaust» is the right way to speak of the event, or whether the extirpation of African religious tradition was as extensive as Butler sees it to be, will be debated for a long time to come.

But this accusation is valid as long as it is a discussion between theists of the hellenic tradition.

As the tradition developed, this acute observation is lost, because the tradition is no longer regarded as arising naturally from observation of life but as existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own righAs the tradition developed, this acute observation is lost, because the tradition is no longer regarded as arising naturally from observation of life but as existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own righas arising naturally from observation of life but as existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own righas existing as a mysterious and powerful entity in its own righas a mysterious and powerful entity in its own right.

I do not mean that values long associated with the Christian tradition, such as love and peace, will disappear from the continent.

As long as most women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly abused womeAs long as most women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly abused womeas most women believed that tradition, they never complained about their beatings, nor dared talk about them openly with other similarly abused women.

The advances in human rights of which we Americans can be justly proud (however partial they might yet be) can be traced to the fact that they were successfully advocated as a development out of the traditions which long predate the founding of the American republic.

Not necessarily — as long as we find a common commitment to systematic reflection, interaction with the metaphysical tradition, and mutual interest in the themes here discussed: God and change, time, becoming, identity.

A week - long «Colloquy on the Loss and Recovery of the Sacred,» it had been designed as a small working conference of church leaders gathered from a broad spectrum of the various Christian traditions.

In the latter regard, H. Paul Santmire whose study of the history of Western attitudes toward nature is one of the best available, provides perspective when he writes: «The theological tradition of the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained and as numbers of its own theologians have assumed, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long - forgotten ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crises and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find» (Santmire, 5).

They claim that those whose faith traditions disapprove of homosexuality will no longer be able to serve as military chaplains if we permit open service.

I think I hold to some hodge - podge mixture of both ideas: Buildings and holidays and traditions can be redeemed, as long as they do not consume our values and mission.

within ourselves and our traditions as well as the reality of others waiting, no longer patiently, to speak.

She has formed her own theology as she has learned from a long tradition of Chinese Christian women who struggled «not only for their own liberation, but also for justice in church and society

So long as the Church was understood as primarily institutional, in terms of its parallelism to a state rather than to a cultural society, and so long as tradition meant resistance to reform, conflict between the principles of traditional and Scriptural authority was inevitable.

In view of this longstanding tradition, referring to the Church as the «new Israel» is legitimate, so long as this is not understood as denying the enduring significance of ethnic Israel.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

Insofar as we allow ourselves as Christians to know, in all honesty, the longing and the dissatisfactions of this contemporary quest for transcendence and mystery, we are also in a position to respond to it out of the riches of the JudeoChristian tradition, newly revisited.

As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendencAs long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendencas we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.

As you know, a Pontifical Council has recently been established for the New Evangelisation of countries of long - standing Christian tradition, and I would encourage you to avail yourselves of its services in addressing the task before you.

David Hart has noted that there is a long theological tradition, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, that «makes no distinction, essentially, between the fire of hell and the light of God's glory, and that interprets damnation as the soul's resistance to the beauty of God's glory, its refusal to open itself before the divine love, which causes divine love to seem an exterior chastisement» (The Beauty of the Infinite, 399).

He will have to carry out his office as a service because at his back there will no longer be any, or hardly any, earthly social power of tradition or the great mass of those who will always obey in any case.

«Dasein», with its Heideggerian characterization of «being thrown» into a particular historical context with all of its traditions, norms and conventions, «has already projected itself and it remains in projection as long as it is.»