Sentences with phrase «many of the traditions»

«A lot of the traditions and quirks of what we do are about fostering a sense of humor and individuality, so that we aren't taking ourselves too seriously, so that we can have frank conversations.»

«As you build an environment in which not everybody is going to be together every day in the same space, it became this folklore that made you familiar with one another,» Whitehead says of the tradition.

One major benefit, Heverly says of the tradition, is that it promotes creativity.

Like a lot of traditions, though, that might be changing.

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.

Admirers of the tradition see the centuries — old spectacle of bullfighting as more of an art than a sport.

We've done flutelike glasses, German - style mugs, and of course, 12 - ounce bottles, but we've never made much of a tradition out of 16 ounces.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

One of the traditions during the Christmas holidays is to read Charles Dickens» famous book «A Christmas Carol,» or to watch one of the many film productions about the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who turned his life around and became a generous soul on Christmas Day.

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

Those of the tradition will hear echoes of «Am I my brother's keeper?»

I stand at the end of no tradition.

Today was May Day, a historic celebration of workers and immigrant workers, and labor unions, immigrant rights groups, and allies came together to celebrate years and follow years of tradition.

YOU have made the word of God invalid because of YOUR tradition.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

They especially fear any discussion that goes to the principles of the tradition, preferring to live as best as they can with whatever compromise is worked out.

Perhaps because of this tradition, many believers are removed from the struggles of orthodox leadership.

When Americans who are respectful of tradition speak of religion as a synonym for theism, they limit their use of the First Amendment to defensive purposes only.

Many of the great Liberal Protestant teachers of the tradition in the last generation have become disillusioned by the loss of their cherished conceptions of critical inquiry, courtesy, and academic standards.

Because those of us who see these things for what they are (unconst.itutional, unethical, sometimes immoral) are too «respectful» of these traditions.

Suppose, further, that this issue was logically related to matters of principle at a deeper level, so that one could not commit oneself on this issue without also making significant commitments about the internal logic and character of the tradition as a whole.

Evangelicals lack this clear tradition because, in part, they lack much of a tradition overall, being mostly a modern American movement that emerged out of several Protestant traditions.

At a time when many Ukrainians are trapped between the failed promises of Marxist utopianism and the often harsh realities of Western materialism, the Orthodox Church is in a position to offer the best aspects of tradition.

Religion itself is a manmade set of traditions... I'm a Christian, and it's clear to me that religion itself is the problem that Christianity has.

The Christian tradition is in fact equipped to take the serious searcher past Job, but it was precisely this part of the tradition that was somehow not delivered to Milosz and which does not appear in the poem.

In extracting «insights from sources as varied as Greek mythology, Catholic mysticism and fairy tales like Cinderella», Mr Rohr has followed in the steps of the religious leaders of Jesus day, who «made the word of God invalid because of your tradition».

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.

Some people would rather not engage in any of the traditions or festivities, and that's fine.

Hence, White insists upon the doctrine of the «hypostatic union» as guarantor of the Tradition's confession of Christ's uniqueness — as well as upon the legitimacy, indeed the necessity, of reason's probing of the essential traits of human nature, notwithstanding the deformation wrought by the Fall.

We envy our Orthodox Jewish friends for understanding the value of tradition, instead of throwing it overboard in pursuit of «relevance.»

I don't hate you at all, but I do see people following religion that hate out of tradition.

That is, pop culture studies can not simply be about conservatives (or Christians, or Great Books educators) dwelling upon the best moments of such culture, or otherwise using it to prove the relevance of the traditions they want to convey.

Jews came to be seen as the enemies of Christian tradition, indeed of all tradition.

Shalom Carmy is chair of Bible and Jewish Philosophy at Yeshiva College and editor of Tradition, the theological journal of the Rabbinical Council of America.

Griffiths focuses on two elements of Pitstick's distillation of the tradition.

And so, to the pastor of a very traditional church, maintaining the look and feel of the traditions can seem almost as important as the reason these patterns exist.

Nothing of the cartoon is symbolic of tradition but rather appears to say that there is no freedom in the scriptures (as truth).

You miss the mystics of all traditions who are far closer to the teachings and path of Christ than anyone who simply follows a book written by man centuries after he lived.

As a result, anyone who sees the value of tradition is forced into a conscious role of being «conservative,» or to use Eliot's term, «orthodox.»

One of these is mastery of the tradition through which the teaching of the Apostles has come down to us.

They started rummaging through the Confucianism and Buddhism they had tossed out, hoping to reclaim the former moral authority of these traditions for the party.

The fact of the matter is that modernity has dissolved a great deal of the power of tradition, even as it sometimes deviates and innovates.

The historical yield of the tradition is nil.

Professor Wilken has answered another, lesser question of the role of reason (and of tradition) in apologetics, ethics, and polity.

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.

Either way, what is required of us is not a drive to change an entire educational culture but a patient, self - assured carrying on of the tradition that has been handed down to us by our mentors.

The Virgin Mary, the Holy Family, the Transfiguration, the Crucifixion, and the like — not an abandonment of traditions at all, but a devotion to them by a man in social transition.

Surely some cleansing process is being carried out according to some sense of the tradition.

Advocates of canonical education view with dismay the decline over the last century in the «authority of tradition.»

The chief problem facing any comparative study involving the Indian religious tradition is the identification of the characteristic elements of that tradition.