Sentence examples for colonial tradition from inspiring English sources

Sun drying the husks is the preferred method because it's more traditional (and corn husk dolls are steeped in both American Indian and colonial tradition), but as long as they're well-dried, the result will be more or less the same.

Following colonial tradition, welfare remained the province of the municipalities until it was taken over by the state in 1970.

In Abidjan, where the French colonial tradition prevailed, students never wrote an essay with small words where big words would do.

And safeguarding the anonymity of those who provide information in confidence is perhaps the core principle of New York's journalistic privilege, as is evident from our colonial tradition, the constitutional text and the legislative history of the Shield Law".

Wooden carvings of specific deities, dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries around Bahia, may reflect later examples of a now-vanished colonial tradition that was permitted by the more religiously tolerant Portuguese but later was stamped out by the more conservative Spaniards.

While there exists a colonial tradition of relegating the non-west to the past of the west – and some suggest leaving it to rot in hopelessness – the trendier option involves incorporating Afghans into modernity by teaching them to live in a globalised present.

Other artists use the Spanish colonial traditions as a point of departure.

Its Creole architecture, creating the atmosphere of a foreign city, combines native architectural ingenuity with adaptations of French colonial traditions of eastern Canada and West Indian Spanish colonial styles.

In his last official act before his death, he obtained passage (June July 1767) of the four resolutions that became known as the Townshend Acts, which threatened American colonial traditions of self-government and imposed revenue duties on a number of items necessary to the colonies.

Murali Ranganathan, an independent researcher, based in Mumbai, pointed out that the pre-colonial tradition of archives and libraries was extremely strong elsewhere in India: dynasties in Maharashtra, Assam, and Mysore kept vast collections that still survive.

France also has strong commercial links in the region, and there are currently eight French hostages in the region.Mr Hollande had also made clear that it was no longer his intention for France to play the role of regional gendarme, stepping in to prop up African rulers, as has been the post-colonial tradition under the Fifth Republic.