Sentence examples for dominant tradition from inspiring English sources

He argues persuasively that the issues now confronting the Muslim world -- the allure of theocracy as a way of securing political dominance; the rights of minorities; and the penalties for conversion out of the dominant tradition -- will divide and transform the Christian world as well.

The comic tradition, according to VS Pritchett in his 1969 Clark lectures, is "a dominant tradition of the English novel.

For this was a land caught on the hop between cultures and identities, bereft of a single dominant tradition, compelled to make itself up as it went along.

Following Wight, Bull sought to resist dichotomous thinking, fundamentally believing that international politics cannot be understood by using either the dominant tradition of realism or its historic alternative, idealism.

His style of philosophy was to make the Aristotelian texts irrelevant for the dominant tradition of Arabic logic after him.

Its dominant tradition, close to symbol-processing architectures, has been enriched by neural networks and by the recognition that human cognition rests on both biological and cultural foundations.

He rejected both the smooth, all-over lighting and classical balance of Raphael and the distorted mannerism of Michelangelo and his followers - rejected, that is, the dominant traditions of Italian painting in the late Renaissance.

It was the beginning of an Afghan love story that flouted dominant traditions of arranged marriages and close family scrutiny, a romance between two teenagers of different ethnicities that tested a village's tolerance for more modern whims of the heart.

He claims that there are two sorts of problems that face every research tradition: empirical problems (akin to Kuhnian anomalies); and conceptual problems (i.e., problems of consistency, either internal or with dominant traditions in other fields).

These cultural specificities have, however, been ignored in favour of dominant traditions of Europe and North America that view blood as a 'de-cultured' and 'de-socialized' substance (Simpson 2009).

Studies of human decision making emerge from two dominant traditions: learning theorists [ 1 3] study choices in which options are evaluated on the basis of experience, whereas behavioral economists and financial decision theorists study choices in which the key decision variables are explicitly stated.