Sentences with phrase «lots of traditions as»

I try to do funny things and keep up a lot of traditions as well... it gives us all a break from the stress, something «warm and fuzzy» to look forward to.

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If she was hired as a gift wrapper for the holiday season, she would have also expected to decorate packages with Santas, elves, pagan seasonal symbols like holly, and probably a lot of things that refer to the Christian tradition of Christmas — angels, doves, 3 wise men and stuff like that.

Although these Abrahamic traditions share a lot in common, from their stories of shared ancestries, to their patriarchal roots, to various figures and prophets like Jesus, Moses, the Angel Gabriel, and so on, many understand these faith traditions as rivals.

Seems that maybe there was also a lot of translation that occured before the books even took written form, as these tribes had traditions of passing on information orally, before writing and scribing started to take hold.

During that time, we studied the story of Joseph as it appears in both of our traditions — in holy text (Torah and Qur «an) and in commentary (midrash and tafsir)-- and also learned a lot about each other.

While there is a tremendous amount of religious stability amongst some religious traditions, as shown by the steady blocks of each color flowing from one year to another, we also see a lot of movement in a short period of time.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

and found that «though various attempts have been made to combine the elements in differing proportions (RF9U4, RF4U7) or to concentrate on one or two of the elements, washing the others out, discomfiture has been the recent lot of Disciples as the tradition simmered in uneasy flux» («Formula in Flux: Reformation for the Disciples of Christ,» The Christian Century, September 25, 1963, p. 1163).

Theirs is not a spirituality of manipulative power and strength, although there is a lot of it in Asian tradition as it is present in every other religious tradition.

I'm sharing this is to show that I'm not just talking from the sidelines as a bystander but as someone who has had a lot of experience and education in both traditions and still embraces a respect for each while feeling free to critique both.

There is always someone else to consider, it is not so easy to find time for yourself and there is a lot of compromising to be done as you bring two people's habits, eccentricities and family traditions into one household, so what is the hurry to move in together?

We are slowly building lots of family traditions as our daughter is only two, but so far we have really enjoyed celebrating winter with her — reading about Jack Frost, talking about winter trees and foraging for branches in the woods to make wreathes.

In this episode, we talk about a lot of interesting and time - proven Chinese traditions as well as concrete practical tips to get the nutrition your need for your postpartum recovery in today's modern world.

For most of us, the holiday season brings with it lots of hustle and bustle as we navigate shopping for various friends and family or participate in annual traditions with loved ones.

Liv Tyler was born under the sign Cancer and as you can see she's all about making every moment count, spending lots of time with family and cherishing family traditions.

Eunice Goes suggested to me that the sneers against areas such as Hampstead and Islington are part of a wider cynicism about urban - dwelling educated people that has existed for centuries but is becoming more prevalent in our post-factual age, «there is a very long established tradition of anti-intellectualism in England that is more about posturing than reality because there are lots of excellent English intellectuals».

But as new popular movements try to articulate a way forward from neoliberalism, the tradition of alternative liberalism has a lot to offer.

Scholarly scientific publishing has a lot of traditions that are not transparent to the reader such as peer review or the non-payment of authors.

While Nourishing Traditions has a lot of great recipes for fermented foods, as a beginner, I was overwhelmed with the mere idea of fermented foods and the complexity of some of the recipes.

As son of a family of scholars, Krishnamacharya, who, in addition to that worked himself a lot and with great attention on the ancient source texts, knew precisely where to look: already at the beginning of the 20th century, scholars knew that the Nāṭh tradition or, Hatha Yoga, had been passed on in the remote mountains of the Himalaya.

As a young family we don't have a lot of traditions yet, but I'm hoping to make holiday crafting one of them!

A lot of women younger than the baby boomers feel that they can show off a bit of their feminine side in the office — after all, if members of the male gender can dress as they were conditioned to (since men's suits have a longgg tradition), why can't women dress like we were brought up?

Many of us know lots of different white wedding dresses as a tradition that has been continued through out the centuries, but actually it wan't until the 1840's when it became popular from Queen Victoria's white wedding dress.

Even though this classic received mixed critical reviews, combined a lot of weird artistic choices and can still put off many who see it today, it has remained a crucial T.V. Halloween tradition and was instrumental in crafting what many now see today as the «Burton Aesthetic.

«Transformers: Dark of the Moon» could've been more fun had it trimmed a lot more fat and noise, but as tradition, Bay goes the behemoth, «more - is - more» route and squanders its little improvements.

Though these «Anabaptists of American education,» as I called parents who have opted for home - based schooling in The Dissenting Tradition in American Education, are certainly an increasingly diverse lot, they are united by a common commitment to the proposition that parents, not the state, have the primary right and responsibility to direct the upbringing and education of their children.

Written as a mock TV documentary with plenty of laughs but lots of real factual information about Christmas traditions.

Wrote all through college (Ole Miss and Southern Miss; lots of literary tradition in that there Magnolia State), then freelanced as a business consultant, business writer, conference speaker and entrepreneur.

Yes, a lot of self - published title are really not up to par, but some authors who are self - published are conscientious enough to have their books edited, with professionally made covers and interior formatting, and put as much efforts if not more than tradition publishers in the productions of their books.

There is a tradition here of the great houses not speaking, not explaining and thus leaving their constituents — who are, in fact, authors as well as readers — in a lot of confusion about how they devise their business model, especially as it pertains to authors.

The bleak - as - hell atmosphere follows FromSoftware tradition and the soul - wrenching orchestral pieces that fill the air in each zone add a lot of intensity to battles, both big and small.

Signature Drink: Lots of good cocktails; we were intrigued by the «Seasonal Shrub,» which uses fruits preserved in vinegar and sugar — a colonial American tradition, apparently — as the basis for a rotating cast of drinks.

-- Donald Judd, 1964 The present lot, untitled (for Leo Castelli at His Gallery's 30th Anniversary) 3 continues Dan Flavin's tradition of creating works dedicated to his friends, colleagues and famous influential figures such as Henri Matisse, Donald Judd and Frank Stella.

These city paintings, many of them of the city's main bridges, share commonalities with the funky return to representation and figuration via a meld of loose abstract expressionist brush strokes and paint application — lots of scumbling and blobs of paint — and a sort of ecstatic folk primitivism adopted by his contemporary and friends in New York in the mid to late 50s, such as Red Grooms, Robert Beauchamp, Gandy Brodie, Mimi Gross, Jan Müller, and Claes Oldenburg (with Eva Hesse picking up the tradition in the mid-60s).

In particular David's comment was that «Simple linear regression methods that don't take into the potential problems are certainly hazardous» so if these are what you are referring to as «traditional» methods (and they seem to be the tradition in a lot of papers in climate science) then they are problematic.

Ontario has over the past 17 years developed a tradition of such bills, though «omnibus» got a bad reputation with Premier Harris's Bill 26 in 1995, since it was used to slash spending across a number of fronts and made a lot of legislative changes as it went.

Having studied development psychology during my undergrad, my parenting can best be defined as influenced by a little bit of research, a bit of family tradition, a bit of instinct, and a whole lot of love.