Sentences with phrase «old tradition among»

Greetings from the year 2007, I want to share a story of an old tradition among my family — your ancestors.

A very tall and gentle man who was a perfectionist as is the old tradition among ships» engineers.

Revisionist opinion towards black caricaturist Stepin Fetchit argues that the lazy and dim - witted Fetchit persona was part of a centuries - old tradition among blacks whereby the servant pretends to be incapable of following simple directions in order to outsmart whites from bossing them around.

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St. John Chrysostom, an outstanding doctor of the Eastern tradition, was particularly pessimistic: «Among thousands of people there are not a hundred who will arrive at their salvation, and I am not even certain of that number, so much perversity is there among the young and so much negligence among the old.&rAmong thousands of people there are not a hundred who will arrive at their salvation, and I am not even certain of that number, so much perversity is there among the young and so much negligence among the old.&ramong the young and so much negligence among the old.&ramong the old.»

While these religious traditions often quarreled among themselves, they were all outsiders, united against the culturally dominant mainline Protestants in the «Grand Old Party.»

Old - line Christians may think that conservative evangelicals do not fully appreciate the importance of the philosophical tradition in undercutting belief in God's reality among thoughtful people in the modern world.

Was Jethro then a priest of the Lord» The oldest stratum of the tradition (J) consistently represents the Lord as having been worshiped without interruption from time immemorial among the southern tribes of Judah and her relations, such as the Kenites, the Calebites.

Across England and Scotland were secret groups of Lollards, a network of people who for a century now had nurtured among themselves a tradition of reading translations of the text of the Bible in manuscript excerpts from various popular sections of the Old and New Testaments, and occasionally from the complete edition of Wycliffe's (or Purvey's) fourteenth - century translation, rare though it was, the only English translation in existence.

In the West, whose apostolic see could claim the sanction of both the prince and the prophet among the apostles, the tendency was rather to stress (in the tradition of Clement of Rome, of Callistus, of Tertullian, of Cyprian, of Ambrose, and of Augustine) the Covenantal sanctions of the ministry in succession both to the apostles and to the Old Testament prophets and priests.

In exchange for growth, God abandons his past forms of existence, among them the transcendent personality that Christian tradition has come to revere as the God of the Old Testament.

In India there is an awakening among the poor in all the religions to their dignity and selfhood which has been suppressed by age - old traditions and culture.

Among them are a California company that offers a Spicy Southwestern blend; an Ohio firm, one of the nation's oldest peanut butter makers, that has broken with tradition in peanut buttery twist; and a Greenwich Village restaurant that specializes in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

After my husband, Joe passed away, I joined with friends — old and new — to create a number of new traditions, among them in — home dinners with all - in gourmet cooks, Juan and Barbara Gelpi.

An old tradition in Siberian villages was for the entire community to gather in the late autumn for a massive pel» meni - making fest, where the labor of mixing, rolling, and stuffing the pasta was divided among many hands.

Guggul Cholesterol Compound is unique among guggul formulas because it also contains Triphala — one of the oldest and, beyond doubt, the most highly revered compound in the 5,000 - year Ayurvedic tradition.

In the age - old tradition of mirror punishment, retaliatory infidelity ranks high among the common strategies of chastisement.»

Since Catholic schools must not abide by restrictive government regulations, they have an opportunity to be among the first to make creative use of broadband, 3 - dimensional visualization, adaptive learning, and much more, if only they can find a way of welding old traditions to new circumstances.

The old tradition of sitting among other students in the impersonal setting of a classroom, coupled by the leer of a professor as students rush to copy down text - heavy slides is quickly becoming an obsolete form of learning.

Amid all the historic cars it's easy to breeze past a tidy display case carefully protecting an empty magnum of champagne, but if you pause for a moment you might realize that among all of Dan Gurney's accomplishments and inventions, the tradition founded with this 50 - year - old bottle of Moët might be the most lasting.

Visit Tanzania where two million year old fossils suggest it was home to the world's first humans; wander among Zimbabwe's Matobo Hills to discover rock paintings illustrating early religious beliefs, foraging traditions and human progress; and meet the Massai People of Kenya to understand the cultural heritage of one of Africa's remaining semi-nomadic tribes.

Sometimes disparagingly called «crapstraction,» the prominence that casualist work has gained in art schools and MFA programs has caused palpitations among older painters who despair that exalted painting traditions — technical proficiency, «rigor,» and the craft of building and priming canvases, for instance — will perish.

It's a longstanding tradition among many American families: Mom and Dad buy a new car for themselves, then turn their old one over to a teenage son or daughter rather than sell it or trade it in.

Australian Indigenous performance traditions, among the oldest in the world, are also among the most endangered.