Sentences with phrase «long traditions of»

Their outstanding designs, rich colourways and exceptional quality result from centuries - long traditions of silk weaving.

There are long traditions of both Sunni monarchs and Shia monarchs in various countries.

They all live nearby, which allows us to continue our more than decade long traditions of Halloween costume parties, Thanksgiving breakfasts, Christmas dinners, and 4th of July weekends at the Oregon coast.

As an anthropologist, whose research focuses on ethnopediatrics I can tell you that many cultures have long traditions of women birthing alone.

Bust what about meanings these forms and images of other religions stand for, not just apparent meanings but meanings deeply embedded in the long traditions of those religions and hidden in the hearts of the believers?

If Russia's neighbors were Canada and Mexico, rather than Germany, China, Turkey, and Poland, and if its other flanks were guarded by thousands of miles of open ocean, it might have free institutions and long traditions of free speech and the rule of law.

It need not increase pollution and waste, for Third World peoples have long traditions of care for the earth, unlike the present occupants of North America and Australia.

The company also has a decades - long tradition of hosting competitions among grocers for prizes to create the most compelling displays of Jolly Time Pop Corn.

And for some employees, the weirdness of Holacracy at Zappos is a step too far, even for a company with a long tradition of weirdness.

Potts has begun considering more exceptions to Winnebago's long tradition of vertical integration.

The following year, FIFA abandoned its years - long tradition of holding executive meetings at Baur au Lac, where suites cost $ 4,000 a night, and moved to another five - star hotel that was expected to save the organization tens of thousands of dollars.

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.

There's a long tradition of presidential candidates and late night TV hosts using each other.

Virtually every European country allows nationalist parties to participate in its domestic politics to some degree, but some countries have longer traditions of supporting nationalist groups than others.

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

But this is just the next step in a long tradition of new technologies replacing the old.

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

In the United States, there is a broad consensus on the economic benefits of its long tradition of community - based banking.

«At Directed Capital we are always looking to provide solutions for Main Street that traditional lenders do not have the capability or flexibility to assist with,» said Directed Capital's CEO Chris Moench, who has specialized in acquiring and repositioning debt for more than 25 years, «With the increase to our credit facility from our longtime lender Goldman Sachs, we were able to acquire these FDIC loans and expect to continue our long tradition of helping borrowers re-access traditional financing channels, while providing investors with superior returns typically uncorrelated with the market.

Missouri's long tradition of confessional orthodoxy resists such absorption, but styles of evangelical piety alien to the Lutheran tradition are now widespread in the Synod.

After communism, the Orthodox Church quickly revived its long tradition of social ministries.

Their emphasis on self - sufficiency and frugality - so complete that questions should arise how Diogenes ever procured a lantern and why he was wasting oil in a search so futile - is the result of a long tradition of praise of poverty, culminating in their view that wealth is qualitative, the internal condition of virtue, to which only poverty can lead.

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.

Graham spent his career leading revivals around the globe, following a long tradition of evangelists who have traveled far and wide to urge sinners to accept Christ.

«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.»

The good news here is that these two brave women stand in a long tradition of women who have challenged male religious and political authority in the name of freedom.

According to Falwell, Beck's presence at the podium will «continue Liberty's long tradition of Commencement speakers who are making a positive impact on society in all walks of life.»

We are heirs of a long tradition of piety, but by fifty years ago, that form of spirituality had gone dry.

Chile was supposed to be exceptional: it had the longest tradition of democracy in Latin America, and everyone thought the military takeover would be brief and relatively benign.

Harry Potter's theology is a very old mythology and is part of a very long tradition of fantasy - fiction based on Norse legends.

It found that the relatively prosperous and well - governed regions were those parts of the country with a long tradition of civic culture.

He comes from a long tradition of Christians working to improve the lives of ordinary people, particularly the less fortunate among us.

One contribution that the religious community can make is to remind researchers that the long tradition of religious dream interpretation can not be reduced to biology.

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

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

Their protests, in dramatic contrast to the silence of church officials, stirred to the surface a long tradition of lay resentment against the higher clergy.

Perhaps so, but that conclusion flies in the face of a long tradition of sociological research that has shown relationships between specific types of beliefs and variations in social class, region, family structure, and political system.

being recent recipients of this treatment, are spot - on and in the long tradition of bloggers checking the sloppiness of professional journalists and pundits.

He is careful in how he introduces these prayers (he says they are only to verbalize or express your acceptance of God's invitation), but due to the long tradition of requiring a «sinner's prayer» to receive eternal life, it may have been best to leave them out.

It has grown out of the wrestlings of ministers with their problems, out of the experiences of the times and the needs of men, yet it has its roots in the Bible and in the long tradition of the Church.

Now this may seem very startling, even shocking, to many in our religious culture, where there is a long tradition of doubting, or possibly even of being unable to tell, whether or not one is a Christian.

In Born Again and Again, Sweeney places himself in a long tradition of fundamentalist preachers.

So, even to the degree that the open view is novel, it is a novelty that stands in a long tradition of novelties.

Or, to put it differently, that evangelicals better understand that, in the long tradition of Christian fidelity, including martyrdom, allegiance to Christ of course takes priority over any other allegiance.

Despite a long tradition of acknowledging conscience, the failure of recent equality and other legislation to make room for conscience and the observance of faith at the work place and elsewhere is yet another feature of an attempted totalitarianism.

But Christians have a long tradition of carrying one out.

This stands in a long tradition of court rulings that public education should accommodate religiously based objections, often raised by Jewish or Jehovah's Witness parents.

The age - long tradition of the «events» of Easter day, so old that it was caught up in the New Testament itself, can no longer be defended as an historical description of the resurrection of Jesus.

In Western Europe, however, almost every nation has a long tradition of government - related broadcast organizations, most of which are highly respected.

An eminent historian of Slavic Christianity, Williams correctly notes that Wojtyla's Polish inheritance gave him an appreciation of civil liberties, e.g., «Our second emerging motif is the long tradition of civil liberty in Poland and the indisposition on the part of Poles to use coercion in the realm of conscience.»