Sentences with phrase «own national tradition»

They re-founded the Jewish community among the ruins of Jerusalem, and by slow and painful degrees built up a civil and ecclesiastical polity through which the Jewish people maintained and developed its national traditions under the tolerant rule of the Persian Empire.

We have to bring together all of the social forces including in those countries where the national traditions mean that it is mainly the associations and NGOs which are active more than the trade unions which tend to be stuck on a professional level rather than in a wider capacity.

Yet Jewish thinkers were right in believing that they possessed in their own national tradition something of higher value than a secular civilization could offer.

Thus both democracy and Marxism have incorporated elements of national tradition, and both have tried to appreciate and encourage the nationalistic loyalties of the peoples they have been trying to win.

These are not merely abstract commands, they are made in the name of God, not of any particular national tradition.

National traditions, religious traditions, and even cultural values are being harnessed and manipulated to suppress the Minjung as they confront the powers - that - be.

The rule of law under which free men live is not a matter only of national tradition and preference.

Young poles began to be attracted by «the pageantry, national traditions, patriotism and the sincerity and friendship which they found in the Church».

France's ski team had been a heartening exception to the recent national tradition of sporting failure; generously subsidized, in 1961 it had dominated international events.

For Marquand, the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher represented a revival of the Tory national tradition, which stresses authority in society and the state.

While the European Research and Higher Education Area is emerging, evaluation practices and policies are still very much linked to national traditions and institutional frameworks.

Recognition and acceptance as a national tradition would take many more years spurred by the efforts of Manuel dos Reis Machado aka Mestre Bimba who emphasized the martial art aspect of capoeira and won it renewed popularity.

On Christmas Eve, Iceland celebrates the national tradition of Jólabókaflóð, the «Christmas Book Flood.

Hidden in the mountiains, Koprivstitsa has preserved the national traditions and spirit and knows how to show them to you in a unique way.

This taxonomic drive to preserve national tradition continues to the present day.

The national tradition of portraiture is represented in a fine collection of Elizabethan works, as well as those by Gainsborough, Reynolds, and Hogarth «the father of English painting» whose much - loved Rake's Progress sequence remains a popular draw.

The show brings together roughly seventy pieces, including material from contemporary artists such as Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Ernesto Neto, whose work suggests that today Tropicália is more a national tradition than an avant - garde.

His national tradition of landscape painting, young as it was, seemed stronger, and when it was on the point of being embalmed in an Australian Academy of Art (luckily short lived) the reaction was urgent and noisy.

Member States should also provide, where appropriate and in accordance with their national traditions and practice, protection for legal persons where they suffer discrimination on grounds of the racial or ethnic origin of their members.»

Not exact matches

Redefining familiar traditions and designing new symbols and rituals, they hoped to channel the main tenets of National Socialism through the popular holiday.

Religious traditions often clashed with ideological goals: was it acceptable for «convinced National Socialists» to celebrate Christmas with Christian carols and nativity plays?

Unfortunately, that means pushing back on national leadership that has no respect for the constitution or separation of power and for American tradition.

Today, @POTUS will sign an EO creating a new faith - based initiative, and will continue the @WhiteHouse tradition that dates to President Truman of proclaiming the National Day of Prayer.

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Today in the Rose Garden, President Trump continued the tradition of celebrating the National Day of Prayer.

Analysts say that Navarro would be a tradition - breaking choice for director of the National Economic Council.

Second, the tradition is too big and too full of parties, caucuses, movements, and organizations to permit such a person emerging on a national scale.

Call upon the various religious groups bound by the same national fabric to address their mutual state of selective amnesia that blocks memories of centuries of joint and shared living on the same land; we call upon them to rebuild the past by reviving this tradition of conviviality, and restoring our shared trust that has been eroded by extremists using acts of terror and aggression;

Community, tradition, connect to family and neighbors as well as a sense of national community in many societies (although many atheist societies are evidence that the spiritual component is not needed) are wrapped up in a religious ident.ity.

The centre's director, Stephen Bullivant, said that the centre would «bring the riches of the Catholic tradition of social thought, the riches of Catholic teaching on faith and reason, into the national conversation.»

Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich's Catholic Conversion Is Part of a Larger Spiritual Shift in His Life and Politics As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's star continues to rise ahead of GOP Republican primaries, he has had less time for what in recent years has become a calming, soothing Sunday tradition: sitting in the pews at the cavernous National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, praying to Jesus and the Virgin Mary during noon Mass while listening to his wife sing in the choir.

They were invited to join the newly formed National Association of Evangelicals, a group of church bodies composed of the fundamentalist, holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

Brown acknowledges that many folks, including some in the peace church tradition, are skeptical that the «Jesus» way can realistically be applied to national policies.»

Neither the political tradition of realism, with its sharp focus on narrowly conceived national interest, nor a utopian universalism uninformed by the hard practicalities of military capability offers significant conceptual help.

They may, in fact, assert their own retrieval of the denominational tradition over the versions represented in national denominational offices.

If he knows it and lives in it as the tradition of the great Church he has an authority in the local and the contemporary Christian community which the man who represents only the tradition of a national or denominational or localized community can not have.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

Enlightenment thought not only affected specifically political institutions, it also influenced the way the religious tradition would be formulated at the level of national culture.

Obama will continue this tradition on Thursday when he attends the National Prayer Breakfast, a longstanding Washington event that has hosted every president since Dwight Eisenhower.

Eastern Orthodox Christians come from «autocephalous» national churches deeply interwoven with local traditions.

His harsh treatment of the therapists and their camp followers (including the earlier National Bioethics Advisory Committee) might usefully be compared with the irenic way he handles criticisms of his own Jewish tradition and recent Jewish commentators on the same matters.

Those Ukrainians, however, who emphasized their unique language and cultural traditions welcomed independence as an opportunity to construct a new national identity.

«We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,» said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New national heritage,» said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.

Nonetheless, the Jewish theocracy, so called, was an aberration from the true national genius and tradition.

The morning vigil service, planned over months by staff at the Washington National Cathedral, integrated chants, prayers, music and traditions from across the religious spectrum.

In responding the following year in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly Gormally highlighted a important aspect of the Catholic magisterial and jurisprudential tradition [this article was also published in Faith March 2006].

For those who have had little exposure to anything but a specific religious tradition or a denominational faith, or a religionsaturated local or national culture, an introduction to world religions and to cosmopolitan cultures makes certainties less stable.

The move coincided with a white paper circulated by Chinese authorities that said religious communities in the country should «adhere to the direction of localizing the religion, practice the core values of socialism, develop and expand the fine Chinese tradition and actively explore the religious thought which accords with China's national circumstances.»

It does not speak well of the USA compared to other developed nations, of the South in a national context, of Southern Baptists in comparison to other religious traditions.

Who could have imagined that Dr. Billy Graham would be willing to participate and preach in a service at the National Cathedral alongside a Jewish Rabbi and Muslim Mullah, sharing the same chancel area as worship leaders, and reading and praying from their own sacred texts and traditions?