Sentences with phrase «were any traditions when»

I don't think there were any traditions when I had my kids.

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There have been times when I have tried to carry on my father's tradition and found myself glued to the window pane of the oven obsessing over whether my soufflé was rising or not.

All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

«There's a tradition in America of people of principle when they are sufficiently offended and disagree with their president on matters fundamental resign,» he said.

The music - streaming company is expected to forgo IPO traditions like underwriters and a lock - up period when it lists on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker name SPOT.

Because of this, the suit says that Coors Light marketing statements such as «Proudly brewed in the Rocky Mountain tradition,» «When the Mountains Turn Blue It's as Cold as the Rockies,» «What would we be without our mountains?

When her husband was alive, she says they had a dinner tradition of revealing their best and worst moments of the day.

But that Sunday tradition is in limbo if the pending NFL lockout happens (as is expected when the current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires at 11:59 pm ET tonight).

The fact of the matter is when you talk about central banks, you're talking about powerful institutions rooted in their own management styles and tradition (even if the latter has just now seen a very unusual break) and it's not likely that one person can radically change things, even if he or she wanted to.

«As they struggled to figure out what made a team successful, Rozovsky and her colleagues kept coming across research by psychologists and sociologists that focused on what are known as «group norms» - the traditions, behavioral standards, and unwritten rules that govern how teams function when they gather... Norms can be unspoken or openly acknowledged, but their influence is often profound.»

Releasing one's tax returns isn't technically required when running for president, but it is a longstanding tradition that lets voters learn more about a candidate.

Janna Drucker, the founder of a Parkland boutique called Fannies Finds, has a tradition of slipping small trinkets emblazoned with motivational quotes into customers» bags when she senses they're having a hard time.

(Though by tradition, the marines would salute him when they're off the ship.)

And in keeping with a tradition of perfection, Blue Bottle will send out their online orders of whole bean products within 24 hours of roasting, and 48 hours for the rest — because that's when the coffee is at its peak flavor.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, known for infighting when picking its leader, is considering breaking a century of banking tradition by looking for an outsider instead.

By of Dollars and Data Convincing yourself that you're right when you know you're wrong is a time - honored tradition in the markets By Ben Carlson Your true worth is determined by how...

Byron started the tradition in 1986 when he was the Chief U.S. Investment Strategist at Morgan Stanley.

But if it works, our governments would be tapping into a Canadian tradition that has succeeded before: when provinces pioneer good ideas, we make them nation - wide standards.

Some blame the lack of a catalogue - buying tradition in Canada, but demand clearly goes unfulfilled here: Four in 10 dollars spent online goes abroad, meaning a large portion of spending isn't going back into the Canadian economy, at a time when the retail industry is on rocky footing and facing new competition from foreign rivals such as Target Corp..

Ouisa Capital believes the investing public will be better served if FINRA and the SEC provide guidance to firms using DLT to help them better understand when transactions effected through a platform require the participants to register as a broker, an exchange, or an alternative tradition system.

Providing a hot cup of coffee is one way USO centers keep service members connected to home and traditions during times when they may be missing them the most.

Atlanta (CNN)-- According to Jewish tradition, a boy becomes a man at 13, when he's called before his community to read from the Torah and become a bar mitzvah, meaning «son of the commandments.»

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

I don't like it when atheists want to secularize our culture and shut out any public mention of religion... But I also don't like it when modern evangelical fundamentalists are so ignorant of the Christian Church's teachings and traditions of two thousand years.

But, we also criticize people who adhere to the dogma — of Christianity, of Islam, of Hindu tradition — when the actions are far removed from what the «policies» of the respective texts dictate (e.g. love thy neighbor, but act badly to others, specifically non-Christians *), or when the «policies» are adhered to VERY closely and make no sense in today's day and age (e.g. homosexuality is a sin).

It's thought that it was merged with German pagan traditions in the 15th century when they became Roman Catholic therefore merging the bunny with Easter.

It must be an old tradition though because allegedly Jesus made a comment about praying on street corners:» «And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.

When Americans who are respectful of tradition speak of religion as a synonym for theism, they limit their use of the First Amendment to defensive purposes only.

Mark's gospel makes numerous errors when detailing Jewish traditions, every single one of the empty tomb accounts is different.

At a time when many Ukrainians are trapped between the failed promises of Marxist utopianism and the often harsh realities of Western materialism, the Orthodox Church is in a position to offer the best aspects of tradition.

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.

Maybe when we give ourselves to ancient words and sacred texts, and embrace routines and traditions, we can remember that we are not here for what we can get out of worship; we are here to give ourselves away in worship.

When Thomas Shreiner concluded his post on cessationism at The Gospel Coalition with the statement that «the Reformers and most of the Protestant tradition until the 20th century believed the gifts had ceased,» I thought that this historical claim needed to be discussed.

But it is only in 1518 — when he met with the papal legate Cajetan and refused to recant — that the handwriting was on the wall; Luther could no longer live in the house of Catholic tradition.

The Americans» tactical error in the recent debate was to appropriate the Declaration's language of natural law and assimilate it to the «British tradition of the common law,» when the truth is the other way around.

Cicero might legitimately be cited in a «conservative» context because he lived in a moment when everything was «going to hell» and he was trying to preserve traditions under siege at the crashing of his own civilization.

If all thinking, then, is conducted within the context of a cultural tradition, it would seem to be done more consistently and more fruitfully when it is explicit about its own contextual limitations and does not pretend to be what it is not and can not be.

anyhoots to understand what Jesus meant when he said those things you have to read it in context to the time and traditions of the day, although the spiritual truths are still relevant.

Saying prayers that were written hundreds of years ago can feel dry and empty when an ancient form is divorced from the living tradition.

On the contrary, on the one occasion when Luther's theological proposals received a halfway careful hearing from a representative of the Roman Church, at his meetings with Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg in 1518, the conclusion reached was that his doctrine of justifying faith was not obviously heretical or in clear opposition to the tradition of the Church.

Sometimes Father Murray seemed to be whimsical about it, but at other times he was dead earnest in suggesting that a day might come when the proponents of the founding and defining Protestant tradition of the American experiment may, for complex reasons, tire of the experiment or turn against it.

So, just because of the situation that someone was born into, in your example a person born to Muslim parents in a different part of the world than you, where that person took on the religous traditions and practices of their parents (as many of us do when we're children), and just never had an opportunity to learn about christianity and Jesus, again only because of where they were born... you contend that person is going to «burn» in an eternal lake of fire?!

crazy that when i was watching the news it had a split screen with 1 guy saying the buried him with all the muslim traditions to show respect to islam and on the other side of the screen it had people singing na na na na hey hey hey goodbye!!!

When they say burial at sea according to Islamic tradition I think they mean he was cremated and flushed down the toilet.

And there was something even odder when it was done in the name of the school's Catholic tradition ¯ by the Protestant chaplains in the official Georgetown office.

Only when this loosely held notion of unity in diversity is held in tension in a community of love can we tolerate, even with wit and a slightly ironic eye, the idea of corporate worship, communal learning, organized fellowship, and the traditions of the church.

In my own tradition, which is Lutheran, we commonly understand ourselves as quite content to be Catholic except when, on certain questions, we are compelled to disagree.

It's interesting to see these people light up when they're speaking about their own faith traditions and also see Morgan light up when he learns something he didn't know before.

When you add that up, it begins to look a little institutional (Webster defines as: «a custom, practice, or law that is accepted and used by many people» So my physical family is an institution and we have customs and practices and traditions over many years.

I know it was not his intention to produce liberal disciples, and I don't think I was wrong to say that his conclusions are typically orthodox, or that he cautioned fear and trembling when about to revise the Great Tradition.