Sentence examples for constitute a tradition from inspiring English sources
If anything, they constitute a tradition unto themselves.
They now constitute a tradition in their own right that spans several generations and even includes a few men.
Proponents of the new anti-gay laws in Russia claim to be upholding "traditional Russian values," yet there was a time when everyone, it seems, from tsars to tavern singers was at least sexually ambiguous, enough to constitute a tradition.
For him, modern art — meaning Picasso, above all — constituted a tradition with formal structures as imperative as perspective was in Renaissance art and chiaroscuro was in Baroque.
Together these constituted a tradition of dealing with literary texts that became a model to all literatures that subsequently emerged in the Islamic world.
The Kurdish general Saladin, who gained control of Egypt in 1169, followed what by then constituted a tradition in Muslim military practice by including a slave corps in his army in addition to Kurdish, Arab, Turkmen, and other free elements.
Although Political Philosophy was not part of the core curriculum in the universities, and although the writings surveyed above were generally not produced with the idea of contributing to a philosophical discipline, by the end of the middle ages the discipline of political philosophy (or political theology) had attained self-consciousness and a sense of constituting a tradition.
One medieval churchman's view does not constitute a "religious tradition".
The SGA discouraged these thefts, which they emphasized did not constitute a true Georgia Tech tradition: "The tradition is stealing the 'T' from Tech Tower – no other 'T's were ever a part of this tradition".
I suppose this constitutes a continuing tradition of diaspora, what Stalin called "rootless cosmopolitanism".
From that period until the middle of the 19th century, many European thinkers of a nationalist persuasion argued that stories told by ordinary people constituted a continuous tradition reaching back into the nation's past.
