Sentences with phrase «tradition of high»

And in another case that week, Chavez - Meza v. United States, involving a sentencing issue, «[e] mbattled Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein ``, argued on behalf of the government, as he participated in the tradition of a high - ranking Department of Justice Official arguing a case in front of the Court.

As with Jensen's sewn abstractions this new body of work invokes a tradition of high painting, adopting its conventions but setting apart or emptying out its symbolic or expressive ambitions.

Neverwinter Online, being an offspring of the legendary Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, continues the good tradition of high - quality plot and allows the players to set their feet at the lands of the huge continent of Faerun and decide the destiny of the war - struck Neverwinter.

In short, the first Banner Saga is phenomenal, and the sequel looks to continue that tradition of high - quality, strategic combat and engrossing storytelling.

Continuing... Read more Sant Jordi Hostel's tradition of high quality accommodation, modern facilities, fun international atmosphere, super friendly staff and amazing organized parties, Hostel Sant Jordi Gracia — a fixed - gear bicycle themed hostel — takes even the high standards of our Award winning Sant Jordi hostels to the next level.

Now mind you, the 3.8 liter bullet proof motor that became the top engine was no slouch, but ever since the introduction of the high performance Kettering V - 8, Olds had a tradition of high performance and luxury.

High - tech features like COMAND telematics and Mercedes - Benz mbrace smartphone controls add sophisticated capabilities, while the Mercedes - Benz tradition of high build quality and premium material selections provide a luxurious driving and riding experience on all terrains.

In the great tradition of high - performance luxury coupes, Audi builds one for the coffee - table art - appreciation books.

The Porsche 911 (pronounced nine - eleven or Neunelfer, in German) carried on the Porsche tradition of high - line, air - cooled, rear - engine, rear - wheel driven sports cars available as a coupe or Cabriolet.

In the long standing tradition of high performance BMW «is» models, BMW today announced an enhanced performance version of the 1 Series Coupe and Convertible called the BMW 135is.

For its iconic 3 - series - based performance model, BMW will dispense with a 26 - year tradition of high - revving naturally aspirated engines in lieu of turbocharged six - cylinder power.

He said: «England has a tradition of high - quality early years education.

Sennheiser continues the tradition of high - end sound with its comfortable, lightweight, and superior sounding HD 202 II Pro headphones.

In effect, he beats the critical tradition at their own game, defending the authenticity of the miracle accounts, counteracting the unfounded claims of anti-Semitism and demonstrating the early tradition of high Christology in the primitive Church.

A perfect shaving instrument, in the feather tradition of high quality shaving instruments.

One of the traditions of my high school is to attend a four - day retreat during senior year, which I did a remarkably long time ago now.

When his wife finally succumbs to tuberculosis, he holds an extravagant funeral, in keeping with the traditions of a higher ranking Samurai.

There, she developed a highly personal painterly style - synthesizing an Abstract Expressionist tendency with the traditions of high European painting.

Around this time, academic critics like Hal Foster championed Prince's work as part of a postmodern critique of commodity culture and as a definitive break with the fusty traditions of high modernism.

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A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

«The geopolitical risk in the market has a pretty high premium,» said Gene McGillian, vice president of research at Tradition Energy.

«This knee - high perspective of desert dwellers and tumble weeds was a new addition to the tradition of documenting the American West,» Aaron says.

However, built on an innovation out of the private school tradition, a lot of high growth will come, he says.

Although the regulatory saber - rattling in Washington might seem an inefficient means of creating policy, Valkenburgh, who holds a doctorate of jurisprudence from NYU Law School and was a 2013 Google Policy Fellow, believes this seemingly uncoordinated dance, with different definitions and points of view, to be in the highest tradition of American law.

The ping of an aluminum baseball bat is not a common sound at Pahokee High School, a place far more known for it's tradition of producing top pro and college football players.

While it is encouraging to see the high level of support from Chinese companies, for whatever reason, the unfortunate truth is that not all leading domestic Chinese companies are able to serve the one belt, one road as they are constrained by traditions, culture, and language barriers.

Boasting romantic 18th - century architecture, and a rich artistic and cultural tradition, the colonial city of Cuenca is set high in Ecuador's Andes Mountains.

By the time of Jesus that worshipful love had degenerated into tradition of works, ceremony and festivals all surrounded by man made laws of the high priests.

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

But it takes a special kind of nerve to caution conservatives about «the high costs of tying a church with a rich tradition of social teaching to the right end of politics,» when you are on board with efforts at the left end of politics to alter and thereby betray that tradition.

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

The theological obtuseness of the Roman court theologians (Cajetan partly excepted), the inability or unwillingness of the Roman authorities to appropriate their own best ecclesiological traditions, and the unlovely influence of financial politics on the handling of the doctrinal issues all played a considerable role, as did Luther's impatience and anger, his inability to take stupid and inappropriate papal teaching at all calmly (perhaps because his own early view of the papal office was unrealistically high), as well as his tendency to dramatize his own situation in apocalyptic terms.

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

Participants expressed very high expectations of themselves: many believe that (in good United Methodist tradition) they can indeed achieve perfection if only they try hard enough.

But the Wesleyan vision includes a high respect for the tradition of the church as a source for theological formulation and a willingness to be judged by it, though flexibly, with Scripture as the final judge of the value of tradition.

In fact, he is in the counterculture tradition with those Americans who between the two world wars, their higher consciousness having been inspired not by golden mushrooms but by Karl Marx as filtered through the minds of Lenin and Stalin, wanted as quickly as possible a lasting abundance for everyone.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, and discussion of contemporary moral issues from a Judeo - Christian perspective.

Evangelicals continue to move into the Catholic and Orthodox churches, but this remains a minority movement, consisting largely of high - profile converts and university students exposed to those theological traditions.

Many of us, myself included, are finding ourselves increasingly drawn to high church traditions - Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Episcopal Church, etc. - precisely because the ancient forms of liturgy seem so unpretentious, so unconcerned with being «cool,» and we find that refreshingly authentic.

The Pelikan volume on the Book of Acts sets a very high standard for a series that promises to make a historic contribution to understanding the Bible within the living tradition that is the Church.

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

In the Hebrew - Christian tradition the presupposition is that the universe does contain satisfaction for man's highest desires, that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed and shall be filled, that there is living bread and water for the spirit, not, in a negative peace of renounced desire but in the positive achievement of triumphant personality, both here and in an eternal kingdom of souls.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

The other tradition — rooted in Judeo - Christian practice transmitted through Roman, medieval and common law, then through European philosophy to the American Constitution — stresses what E. J. Corwin has called «the higher law background» of our legal tradition.

Such a revitalization of biblical religion in America would find, I believe, an ally rather than an enemy in the highest aspect of the civil tradition.

I remember Victoria telling me that the sweat ritual used here is based on the Lakota tradition — the Indians of the High Plains.