Sentences with phrase «most common tradition»

The most common tradition of Halloween season is carving up that bad boy into a Jack...

We break down the most common traditions so you can be prepared.

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And it is the most promising attempt in American higher education to recover Christian traditions for our common intellectual life.

He developed what he called the «hero tradition» to describe these archetypal features of history's most loved heroes; twenty - two common events likely to occur in a hero's life:

But there are also altruistic reasons (which some people from differing theological and secular traditions share) for promoting concern for the common good and focusing on the welfare of the most vulnerable.

To me, the most significant single point is that for people today «sacred meaning does not derive from a rooted concept supported by common tradition and institutions; rather, meaning is located in the unfolding of one's own life.»

One of the most common was the telling of gospel traditions in early Christian worship.

Showing off the American flag is most common among those who belong to a religious tradition; 78 percent of religious Americans show off the flag.

His critique of liberalism, as he puts it in After Virtue, «derives from a judgment that the best type of human life, that in which the tradition of the virtues is most adequately embodied, is lived by those engaged in constructing and sustaining forms of community directed towards the shared achievement of those common goods without which the ultimate human good can not be achieved.

An equivalent of the Matthaean «Our Father who art in heaven» is the most common form, and this is especially the case during the time of Johanan ben Zakkai (circa AD 50 — 80), which is also approximately the time of the fashioning of the Matthaean tradition.

Clergy in some traditions wear distinctive everyday dress, of which the clerical collar, popularly known as a «dog - collar» is the most common.

A bowed head is the most common prayer position in the Protestant tradition, but it is only one of many.

By contradistinction, most African traditions have a deeply rooted sense of reality, of what is concrete, and their aspirations, we would argue, are healthy and born of common sense.

The yoga practiced by most Americans today has little in common with the ancient tradition, but that doesn't mean you should throw away your mat and leggings.

Rhythm - induced trance is common in shamanism, humanity's most ancient healing tradition.

FORUM / Diversity: CS&A's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion We believe it's important to host this conference because of the many common themes that unite even the most disparate independent schools: the need for quality teachers and motivated students, the desire to produce students of integrity as well as intellect, and the tension between progress and tradition.

As the son of one of Josephine County's most distinguished lawyers, Lynn was raised in the law and continues his father's tradition of integrity and common sense.

Speaking in generalities and conscious of the many exceptions to weaken the statement, for the most part, Wolters Kluwer comes from and is most comfortable in the European, multi-lingual, Civil Law tradition while Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis are happier in that of the English - speaking, Common Law world.

Most countries today follow one of two major legal traditions: common law or civil law.

The common assumption with most churches is that they're conservative and are beholden to time - honored traditions.

where it is tradition to use chalk to write the year, and the initials C+M+B over the door (there are several variations on why those initials, the most common being that they are the initials of the three kings, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, OR the words Christus Mansionem Benedicat — Christ Bless this house).