Sentence examples for claims continuity from inspiring English sources
As far as I can tell, the Koran claims continuity with the Judaeo-Christian tradition, and with the revelation given to the Hebrew prophets and to Jesus.
Greece which itself contains a region named Macedonia (Makedonía) and which claims continuity with the glorious accomplishments of Alexander the Great and the ancient Macedonians has strenuously objected to the use of a "Greek name" by a state that has a majority of citizens who are Slavs.
Recently a "Neo-Fatimid" style has emerged, used in restorations or in modern Shia mosques by the Dawoodi Bohra, which claims continuity from the original Fatimid architecture.
From shows of Rubens or Botticelli that are top-loaded with contemporary art to the Frieze Masters art fair, the art world likes to claim continuity and connection between old and new.
When Protagoras, in one of Plato's dialogues (Protagoras) is made to say that, unlike others, he is willing to call himself a Sophist, he is using the term in its new sense of "professional teacher," but he wishes also to claim continuity with earlier sages as a teacher of wisdom.
The functional reality would be roughly the same as that expressed by the new Franciscan paradigm people moving from one set of marriage vows to another, receiving Communion at both the start and the end of the journey but the surrounding forms would be stable enough to claim continuity.
The functional reality would be roughly the same as that expressed by the new Franciscan paradigm — people moving from one set of marriage vows to another, receiving Communion at both the start and the end of the journey — but the surrounding forms would be stable enough to claim continuity.
Both Greek and Macedonian claims to continuity with the ancient kingdom are tenuous at best.
But claims to continuity with the past, however accurate they may be, provide only a tenuous basis for claims to territory or identity.
Despite claims of continuity, moving the franchise, whether across the street or across the country, breaks with the history and tradition established there.
