Sentence examples for credible traditions from inspiring English sources

But they suffered, too, from a loss of credible traditions that had made life seem real and reality seem livable.

Indeed, the account given by those Peloponnesians who have been the recipients of the most credible tradition is this.

As Nozick observed, a probability limit is not credible in "a tradition which holds that stealing a penny or a pin or anything from someone violates his rights.

The new Cluedo's Dr Orchid is squarely in this tradition of credible, working female scientists.

But as for youth (performers under 50), it has always struggled to forge a credible connection between a nightclub tradition nearly done in by rock 'n' roll and television and the idea of a future.

While Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, the new military leader, is talking of "the imperative" of democracy, there are no credible political parties, scant recent tradition of democracy, no surviving figure with the breadth of appeal of Mr. Abiola and serious ethnic tensions.

Among credible representatives of a vital German tradition of naturalist thought, Kant is absent, Goethe virtually so.

Pasquier denied that medieval chronicles were "authorities," instead regarding them as raw materials or primary sources, no more credible than law codes or even folk traditions.

Such a claim has no credible roots in the Quran and Islamic traditions.

His contention that Falun Gong belongs to a tradition dating to White Lotus is credible.

Austin maintains that the conflicting motives that prompted these writers to rehabilitate Helen led to further revisions of her image, though none have endured as a credible substitute for the Helen of epic tradition.