Sentence examples for a tradition going back from inspiring English sources

The buffalo race is a tradition going back 140 years.

"Many of our churches began as house churches, a tradition going back to the early biblical church," he said.

He is a man of the theatre, happy to stick with a tradition going back to the Elizabethans.

Conforming to a tradition going back to the Romans, the Spaniards considered the city to be of paramount importance, with the surrounding countryside directly subordinate to it.

When a member of Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club hurled a pot plant through a restaurant window, he was maintaining a tradition going back generations.

Breaking a tradition going back at least half a century, Mr. Cuomo was inaugurated at a state convention center in Albany rather than the Assembly chamber.

Mr. Edwards's strong showing came in a state with a maverick tradition, going back to when John F. Kennedy upset Hubert H. Humphrey in the 1960 Democratic presidential primary.

"The government has a lot of weight, it's a French tradition going back to Colbert," said Jean-Pierre Béguelin, chief economist at Pictet, a private bank in Geneva.

I have been involved with similar research on trade union organisation in many countries over 40 years, and Giulio's method of interviews and observation was in an honourable tradition going back over a century to the Webbs.

The role of honorary starter is a Masters tradition going back to 1963, and it is one that was filled before Palmer and Nicklaus by other former champions, including Byron Nelson, Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead – American heroes to a man.

As Reich, who picked the winner, told the World Service's excellent arts magazine The Strand, the rewriting of works by other composers is a venerable tradition, going back to at least the time of Josquin.