Sentence examples for a bad tradition from inspiring English sources

"They are just a bad tradition that must be stopped".

Obama said: "Treating women as second-class citizens is a bad tradition: it holds you back.

Among those who opposed genital cutting their reason for their opposition was mostly because they consider FGC as a bad tradition.

Of Holst's impact on Morley College, Vaughan Williams wrote: "[A] bad tradition had to be broken down.

Maybe this isn't a completely bad tradition after all.

So fairy tales are not part of a bad folk tradition (masculine, nationalist, and völkisch) but part of a good folk tradition (feminine, universal, subversive, and anti-patriarchal).

The first reason is our very bad tradition of forced marriage.

Much about ballet is bad and is worth trashing; much about it is artistically tawdry and hidebound in bad tradition; and most of its current choreographers are at best poor.

Thus Oakeshott in Rationalism in Politics refers to the Russian tradition of autocracy, merely perpetuated by the Bolshevik revolution; it is not "good" or "bad" tradition, but the only one that Russia knows.

Before Holst's appointment, Morley College had not treated music very seriously the bad tradition to which Vaughan Williams referred; at first Holst's exacting demands drove many students away.

Barack Obama wrapped up his visit to Kenya on Sunday with a strong condemnation of female genital mutilation and other "bad traditions" that treat women as second-class citizens, in a speech that also a offered a poignant glimpse into his African heritage.