Sentence examples for accepted tradition from inspiring English sources

He also named his own grandson, Duncan, as his successor, in defiance of accepted tradition.

According to a commonly accepted tradition, Memphis was founded about 2925 bce by Menes, who supposedly united the two prehistoric kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt.

But it is also a place where women dress in black and wear chadors much of the time and where polygamy is an accepted tradition.

With the bride price a widespread and culturally accepted tradition across much of Uganda, such calls for an end to the practice have been repeatedly ignored.

The parking lot festivities, once ridiculed as anemic alongside the more muscular Manhattan ticker tape parades given for New York City sports champions, have acquired the status of grudgingly accepted tradition.

But Mr. Jonathan's candidacy is not without handicaps — he is mild-mannered, and as a Christian from the south is resented by many in the Muslim north as an interloper in an accepted tradition according to which northerners and southerners alternate in holding the presidency.

In them Mussorgsky abandons accepted traditions of melody with accompaniment in favor of his own free-style musical declamation.

Although Tulsidas was above all a devotee of Rama, he remained a Smarta Vaishnavite, following the more generally accepted traditions and customs of Hinduism rather than a strict sectarian outlook.

Interventions aimed at changing culturally accepted traditions often present the greatest challenge because, unlike many structural interventions, they are not easily modified by increased funding.

Historians of his day, he thought, were too credulous in accepting tradition.

Islam holds that the Qurʾān alone contains revelation in the strict sense (waḥy), but it accepts tradition (Hadith) as a supplementary source of Islamic law (Sharīʿah).