Sentences with phrase «long tradition behind it»

It doesn't seek to be another examination of the Bushido code, but rather a canny conversation about its representation in modernity as it trails a long tradition behind it.

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So long has been the tradition behind the notion of time's contingency that it has acquired the strength of an absolute truth.

If Heidegger was right — and he was — in saying that there was always a nihilistic core to the Western philosophical tradition, the withdrawal of Christianity leaves nothing but that core behind, for the gospel long ago stripped away both the deceits and the glories that had concealed it; and so philosophy becomes, almost by force of habit, explicit nihilism.

Behind evangelical support for Israel lies a long tradition of Christian thinking about the millennium.

Although understandable, «the longing for a tradition that will make sense out of our evangelical tower of Babel, the recoil from self serving exegesis, and the dissatisfaction with the miserable and stultifying parochialism of much evangelicalism» should not cause us to opt for an authoritative creed (and an authoritative church resting behind the creed).

Behind the Mother Earth there is a long tradition of agricultural matriarchal civilization.

In the true spirit of our party's long tradition, I urge all party members and sympathisers to rally in unity behind leadership and government, as we seek to fulfil the pledges made to Ghanaians, and, thereby, improve their living conditions.

These celebrations usually last long after the sun sinks behind our beloved ocean and it's become one of our favorite traditions.

Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy (through Jan. 13): The Asian Art Museum brings an outstanding private collection to light to exemplify the values behind the long tradition of written Chinese.