Sentences with phrase «on breaking tradition»

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President - elect Donald Trump on Friday spoke with the president of Taiwan — a move that breaks with nearly 40 years of diplomatic tradition, amid reports that the Trump Organization is looking to expand there.

It's tradition for Branson to coop up at his home on Necker Island and stick it out through major hurricanes — he's done so three times throughout the past 30 years, and this record - breaking storm was no different.

In his thinking, therefore, there was no break in the continuity of the social group; the church was God's true people, inheriting the promises and carrying on the great tradition of Israel.

I think a lot of religion is tradition based on experience and reaction, sometimes primitive and uninformed, and its hard to break free from that without upending families sometimes.

I should be disposed to conclude that while the general tradition held that Christ «rose from the dead» (commonly understood to mean that he emerged from the tomb in which his body had been laid) it preserved also a genuine memory that on that Sunday morning his tomb was found broken open and to all appearance empty.

So what is it about the event that was able to break through years of Jewish tradition and turn the world on it's head.

Indeed, Christianity's founder acknowledged his break with Jewish tradition on this matter from the very outset: «You have heard that it was said, «You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.»

John Harutunian insists that Jesus may have been «breaking away from Jewish tradition on this point,» but not «from the Jewish Scriptures.»

There is further evidence of the same tradition in John 19:31, «Because it was the eve of Passover, the Jews were anxious that the bodies should not remain on the cross for the coming Sabbath, since that Sabbath was a day of great solemnity; so they requested Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down.»

This argument breaks down on the fact that the contemporary form critic does not deal with a nebulous entity, «the community», to which he ascribes all kinds of powers; he deals with specific groups, individuals and traditions which he isolates, identifies and delineates.

Innovators like Stravinsky relied not so much on breaking with convention and tradition, but with identifying the power of discarded traditions.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

So, upholding precious traditions that once were allowed by God, and defending the status quo that now no longer stands up to those tensions you spoke of, is the same as going shopping or hanging pictures on the wall, which is acceptable under normal circumstances, but if your» e broke or if the house is on fire, then its just plain crazy.

Although they cite the Baptist theologian Timothy George in a way that shows his awareness of the ground - breaking work of the World Conference on Faith and Order at Montreal in 1963 on «Scripture, Tradition, and traditions,» Noll and Nystrom make no systematic use of his insights; they also neglect to note the phraseology of Pope John Paul II when he called for further study on «the relationship between Sacred Scripture as the highest authority in matters of faith and Sacred Tradition as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God» (Ut Unum Sint, 79)» a formulation that I think may hold the best promise of resolving the question since the sixteenth century.

At that time I was also looking for some new inspiration on how to think about God, in a way which would not imply a complete break with my own philosophical and theological tradition.

In the tradition of Moses, and from then on, this God breaks with the other gods, finding their company boring and their preoccupations inane.

De Lubac's thesis is that Catholicism alone is capable of fulfilling our tormenting desire for the universal, the desire that breaks the heart of an unstable and uncertain modern West, which in the twentieth century wished to see itself as achieving a non-religious universality based on reason, without resort to religious traditions or appeals to revelation.

Parents want their children to hold onto the family's values and traditions, but how do you pass on a moral legacy when the members of your group leave after a couple of decades and when the organization you lead breaks up every generation?

Family tradition dictates that we feast on seven fishes but this recipe looks like a delicious reason to break tradition

Like in years past, The Recipe Redux challenged us to Grab a Book and Cook this month and because I wouldn't want to break from tradition too terribly much, I reached for my newest Green Kitchen Stories cookbook and found a recipe on page 127 I've been tweaking for quite some time.

Dianne «Veggie Girl» confesses on her blog that, although she usually doesn't feature the same cookbook twice in her «Cookbook Project» series, my vegan Carrot Cake Pancakes with Cream Cheese - Orange Sauce inspired her to break with tradition and feature The Blooming Platter Cookbook for Project 19 and 20.

Once reserved for weekend projects, it's now an anyday staple (and, breaking with tradition, it's a crowd - pleaser on nachos).

Breaking from tradition, vitamin - packed sweet potatoes replace noodles in our latest take on lasagna.

It's a huge but exciting task for the stalwart to take on, with Wenger now continuing to break from tradition in terms of bringing in former players to assist him at the club.

Anybody who thinks the German star got banned on purpose to continue his tradition of a winter break must be very cynical indeed.

Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said last weekend that «Barca have broken the tradition» so his team would be following their example should Barca's first game as La Liga champions be Madrid's visit to the Camp Nou on May 6.

We believe that changing the club's name will break with 109 years of history and tradition and are calling for proper consultation with supporters on any change to the club's identity.

We just continue blindly following these traditions whether it's breaking a glass or putting henna on our hands or beating the groom's feet with fish.

Now available in a striking Midnight Blue in limited quantities, the rear - facing infant carrier builds and improves on the strong tradition premium infant car seats, with a ground - breaking, ergonomic design offering a full - recline position outside of the car.

Canestrari didn't want to speculate on who might replace him as majority leader, but he did suggest it's entirely possible Silver will break with tradition and go with someone from Long Island instead of an upstater.

The no campaign has tried to counter these arguments and mobilise opponents of independence by playing up the risks of an independent Scotland and the break with tradition — again tactics aimed at voters high on conscientiousness and low on openness.

[159][160] After marrying Thornton in a civil ceremony on 27 May 2011, he paid tribute to his Jewish heritage by following the tradition of breaking a glass.

Cuomo this year is breaking with tradition by taking his State of the State on the road, rather than in the Capitol complex as he and previous recent governors have done.

In combining the addresses, Cuomo again breaks with the tradition of the State of the State being delivered on the first day of the legislative session (Jan. 6 this year) and the executive budget address coming later in the month.

Here is a man who is so resistant to the lures of tradition that he ignored the convention of backroom fixing to break cover and launch an attack on the unpopular former Commons Speaker Michael Martin, setting in train his downfall.

Late last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration broke with the longstanding tradition of providing school districts across New York State with «runs,» the projected aid increases, based on the governor's education funding proposal, which district officials use to help shape their own budgets.

For example, the City Council broke from its tradition of deferring to the local council member on land use matters in 2009, when it approved a rezoning for Two Trees Management in Dumbo against the wishes of David Yassky, the Council member at the time.

Politics.co.uk staff have an honourable tradition of not agreeing on anything, so we're sorry to break with our heritage.

The Democratic National Convention Committee and the Obama campaign announced on Monday that they would break with tradition and move the final day of convention activities, including the acceptance speech, from the Pepsi Center in Denver to Invesco Field, home of the Denver Broncos, which can hold more than 75,000.

While the governor broke with tradition to boost his party - mates this year, he qualified his support by requiring «good Democrats» who received his endorsement to fill out a questionnaire agreeing to Democratic politics on his terms.

Big deal, you might say - and perhaps it isn't a big deal, but Brown has broken a long tradition of British political leaders not commenting on the election campaign of their key ally, the Unites States.

After breaking the age - old tradition for months of campaigning with the press «on the bus,» so to speak, Clinton, aides, Secret Service agents and members of the news media all boarded the candidate's new campaign plane, bound for Ohio.

The focus on higher education the first day is a break with tradition, as lawmakers have generally scheduled the first day of the joint legislative hearings on the budget to be «tin cup» day — when mayors and local government officials discuss the impact of the spending proposal on their municipality.

New York's primary election will likely be on a Thursday this year, breaking with tradition because the 2018 election falls on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.

Her close relationship with the mayor was a break with the political tradition she grew up in ---- as head of both the Housing Justice Campaign and the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, as a protégé of Duane, who was an outspoken critic of Giuliani while on the Council, and as a top deputy to former Speaker Gifford Miller, who often adopted a confrontational approach toward Bloomberg.

JOHNSBURG New Johnsburg supervisor Andrea Hogan has broken with tradition and named someone not on the town board as her deputy town supervisor.

Two years ago, human genome researchers broke with tradition and agreed to release new data on an ongoing basis (Science, 25 October 1996, p. 533).

The concept isn't really a break with tradition, Bloch insists: ANR takes the place of two funds, now dissolved, which doled out money on a project - by - project basis: the National Fund for Science and the Fund for Technological Research.

I was a very picky eater as a child and on this day of traditions I have never been able to break from the food rules I set in place as a three year old.