Sentences with phrase «years developed a tradition»

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.

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LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

I've been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I'm writing... Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do «in church» is a result of tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000 - 1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

The study of how traditions developed surrounding the Church Year is fascinating.

But still, as the two traditions developed over the years, the distinction became a real one.

It has sort of developed from the tradition of the King Cake — which is made in France to celebrate the Epiphany, which falls on Jan. 6 every year, and marks the day when the Wise Men arrived to visit baby Jesus.

This tradition of friends getting together at our house has developed naturally over the past ten years that we've called the West coast of Florida our home.

The appearance of Indian restaurants in the U.K. coincided with the beginning of a dining out tradition among the middle class, which had never developed during the war years and the austere fifties.

Tropical Traditions spent more than two years in research and development in developing Cocofeed, and our poultry research continues.

Over the years, the tradition has developed specific rules.

Martial Arts is a way of life that is steeped in Asian tradition, having evolved over the last 2,000 years from a way of developing discipline and fitness, both mentally and physically, into a wide range of activities that includes self - defense, confidence, respect, and, of course, discipline and exercise.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

The early human techno - tradition, known as Howiesons Poort (HP), associated with Homo sapiens who lived in southern Africa about 66,000 to 59,000 years ago indicates that during this period of pronounced aridification they developed cultural innovations that allowed them to significantly enlarge the range of environments they occupied.

TCM was developed in China and is based on traditions and practices that have been used for more than 2,000 years, including nutritional strategies, herbal supplements and techniques, acupuncture, tai chi, meditation, and more.

Christmas traditions develop little by little, year by year, and sometimes with no advance planning.

With the roots in the timeless Vedantic and Tantric Traditions, Sattva Yoga Academy teachings of yoga and meditation were developed in the Himalayas after years of study and research.

She has integrated over 18 years of Yoga practice with her training to develop her own approach to teaching and practice that is strongly rooted in the ancient traditions but also reflective of modern interests and orientations.

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.

The College of Charleston is almost 250 years old, and in that time has developed a strong tradition in many academic fields, including education.

In the last few years, Portugal has truly developed into a classy destination; Lonely Planet reports that just last year, seven new Michelin stars were awarded across the country, honouring the fine traditions of Portuguese cooking and baking.

«While we value and preserve our traditions, we will continue to develop new and innovative approaches to hospitality, so while celebrating our past this year, we can also look forward to a bright future.»

Hyatt is a global hospitality company with widely recognised, industry leading brands and a tradition of innovation developed over more than 50 years.

Over the past twenty years, Morris has resolutely trodden her own path, developing an abstract visual language that transcends modern traditions such as Modernism, Pop Art and urban culture, with craftsmanship and material playing a leading role.

The Norton Simon Museum houses a world - renowned collection of art from South and Southeast Asia that includes examples of the rich sculptural and painting traditions that developed in this region over the course of more than 2,000 years.

For years Angelina has developed a method of abstract work that alludes to stain and pour painting traditions of Frankenthaler and Louis, among other influences, while contemplating urban and interior structures that make up today's world.

Over the past 50 years, Sean Scully has created an artistic system of his own, gathering and developing the best plastic traditions of the early 20th - century avant - garde and combining them with complex metaphysical philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to theorists of the present day.

The Welsh painter Richard Wilson returned to London from seven years in Italy in 1757, and over the next two decades developed a «sublime» landscape style adapting the Franco - Italian tradition of Claude and Gaspard Dughet to British subjects.

Danube school, German Donauschule, a tradition of landscape painting that developed in the region of the Danube River valley in the early years of the 16th century.

Throwback Thursday is an Internet tradition that has developed in the past few years on Instagram and Facebook.

A relatively new tradition that has developed in the last 7 years is that my mother makes sure to buy enough papers on Thanksgiving day so that each family (mine and my brother and sisters family) can sit around digest and look at the black Friday sale ads.