Sentences with phrase «to develop the tradition»

"To develop the tradition" means to build upon and enhance existing customs or practices, often with new ideas or improvements, in order to ensure that the tradition continues and evolves over time. Full definition
As time went on, we cat volunteers developed a tradition of bringing her into the office during our shifts, where her personality began to shine.
These two labs had developed a tradition of researchers developing methods, writing programs and sharing code.
In developing these traditions and their own micro-culture, families can create shared meaning.
The exhibition is primarily interested in subjective takes on the figure, engaging Symbolist, Expressionist, Surrealist, and newly developing traditions which are less beholden to «Realism» and instead keep the figure fluid for numerous other purposes.
By its own accrued consensus of understanding, the Church developed a tradition of what is permitted (or even required).
Galen was one of the first experimenters we know of in biology; Vesalius developed the tradition of accurate observation and experimentation from Galen.
■ Bishop Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1168 - 1253), Bishop of Lincoln and founder of the «Oxford School» known for developing the tradition of experimental science.
Ontario has over the past 17 years developed a tradition of such bills, though «omnibus» got a bad reputation with Premier Harris's Bill 26 in 1995, since it was used to slash spending across a number of fronts and made a lot of legislative changes as it went.
And yet they survived, reconstructed their community, and handed down a continuous and developing tradition which exerted a creative influence upon the whole of subsequent history.
This more optimistic assessment speaks to the major difference between the two: Mill inherited a well - developed tradition of thinking and writing about the self, one that, by his time, took for granted the coherence of personality and world.
Another source of meaning for broad constitutional language Is the well - developed traditions of the nation.
Indeed, the great thinkers of ancient Greece began to develop a tradition of moral philosophy long before Christ came to earth.
One might have thought it a virtue rather than a flaw that the article was situated not in a single theory but in a developing tradition.
The Gospel stories of the risen Christ, which have been highly valued in traditional Christianity through the centuries, are now regarded by New Testament scholars as containing many legendary elements, reflecting the developing traditions of the last quarter century from which they come.
Since a developing tradition does not sharpen and isolate metaphors but rather mixes and blunts them, we may assume that these two sayings have given nse to the tradition of faith «moving mountains» in the Church rather than vice versa, and there is good reason to accept their authenticity.
He also brings out and reflects upon tensions in the developing tradition on this point.
Liturgies, collections of prayers, theological statements, moral teaching, and much else are included in the general and developing tradition of the Church.
These are but a few of the stepping - stones to be found in the developing tradition of Israel which was destined to lead to the vibrant concern with love manifested in the New Testament.
None of the developed traditions about immortality fosters self - absorption.
All of these sayings are testimony to the developing tradition in the Church; they are not evidence for the teaching of Jesus.
The first two of these changes are characteristic of a developing tradition in the Church, and since the early Christians spoke of the coming of the Son of man very much as Jesus had spoken of the Kingdom as a future hope, we can readily imagine that they could have taken the original and genuine saying of Jesus, Luke 17.20 f., and transformed it in this way to express their expectation.
Turning to the two entities in the tradition, (b) and (c), the reference to the sign of Jonah and its interpretation, and (d), the unfavourable comparison of «this generation» with the queen of the South and the men of Nineveh, we begin by pointing out that their original independence from one another is not only to be supposed on the basis of our knowledge of the tendencies at work in the developing tradition.
While it typically takes years for locals to support an expansion franchise and develop both tradition and identity in hockey (see the Lightning or Panthers or Stars or even the Philadelphia Flyers as examples), it's not far - fetched to imagine a Sounders - like love springing up from the grassroots in Seattle.
During the past few years, I have developed the tradition of taking a walk with my students every Friday morning, as soon as students arrive in class.
Cultures and societies have developed traditions and stories in attempts to explain the dualities of the world.
As the first daily source of court information, we have developed a tradition of integrity, independence and trust.
Together you can develop traditions and rituals that are unique to your family's personality.
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