Sentence examples for a function of tradition from inspiring English sources

An estimated 70percentt of Africans use traditional healers as their primary source of health care, a function of tradition and availability.

Re "Getting Past the Formalities" (Sept . 14: I find it hard to believe that the use of the word "Hussein" three times on the front page on Aug. 28 was simply a function of "tradition".

In Political Order and Political Decay, Fukuyama shows how the success of autocratic regimes in East Asia has been more a function of their strong Confucian tradition of state-building and meritocratic leadership than the centralization of power in the hands of a repressive leadership, which has produced disasters in other settings.

This suggests a way toward a Christian consensus on the necessity and function of tradition.

He continually reminded us that tradition has within itself the power of renewal; in his words, "Authentic tradition is a function of the critical memory and the creative imagination.

Following the Chinese tradition, we can describe it as a structure consisting of Onset + Rhyme, with the trajectory included as a function of the Rhyme.

Still, Mayfair is a bastion of tradition.

Tennis is a game of tradition.

"She was a voice of tradition".

The festival is a meshwork of tradition.

A third function of doctrine is polemical: the defense of the faith against misinterpretation and error, within or without a religious tradition.