Sentence examples for anchor tradition from inspiring English sources

For Scholem Judaism's ostensible anchor, tradition, is always in danger of undermining itself because it contains the seeds of its own demise in the form of esotericism, mysticism, and myth.

Without an anchor of tradition holding winemaking styles in place, Condrieu producers, like their New World counterparts, are experimenting with several different styles.

To anchor its tradition even deeper, the academy is expanding its collection of historical records and scientific instruments related to the Nobel Prizes in a wing of its main building, said Karl Grandin, assistant director of the academy's Center for the History of Science.

"The question of the proper relation of present to past is particularly timely, for the recent process of urbanization in China invites debate as to whether architecture should be anchored in tradition or should look only toward the future," the jury said in its citation.

This local focus is important to Moussoukoro Diop, a prominent Senegalese technology blogger and computer engineer who describes herself as "open in spirit, but very anchored in tradition", who gets homesick and misses her mother when she goes abroad, and wants to stem the flow of Senegalese people seeking work in the west.

Both have rich Cajun and Creole histories, anchoring culinary traditions born of freshwater swamps and salty ocean.

After the American Civil War (1861 65), freed slaves in certain areas were able to purchase the lands that they had worked, thereby anchoring their traditions and communities for generations.

"After This" explores the social and political upheavals of the era through the experiences of John and Mary Keane and their four children, who live in a close-knit, Irish-Catholic neighbourhood on Long Island.While their parents' attitude to life is anchored by traditions of heritage and faith, the children become increasingly influenced by the changing mores of their generation.

This tradition, anchored in our history, is the glue of our national unity".

Mentioned more than 600 times in the Bible, Jerusalem, anchored in Jewish tradition, is the national landmark of that tradition.

After World War II, Mr. Douthat argues, churches created a sane, centrist religious culture, anchored by Christian tradition but hopeful about progress.