Sentence examples for accepted traditions from inspiring English sources

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.

The community level highlights the accepted traditions and values of members of communities aggregated at the community level [ 36].

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.

From now on this group formed a strong opposition party, later to be known as the most conservative section of the Pharisees (the religious group whose interpretations and applications of the law, written and oral, became accepted tradition in later Judaism).