Sentence examples for foreign tradition from inspiring English sources

Hearing the carols blaring from sidewalk loudspeakers in this overwhelmingly Buddhist and Shinto country, you wonder, how did Japan buy into such a foreign tradition?

Maybe, coming fresh to a foreign tradition, Lukas and Edwards shouldn't be expected to live up to grand models like Tiepolo, Bellini and Bernini.

That Thurman should call his book "Inner Revolution" is therefore an astonishingly self-conscious appropriation of a Western and even totemic American notion in order to make an evangelistic appeal to a distinctly foreign tradition of interior spiritual discipline.

She works on projects connecting her jewelry to foreign tradition to allow other cultures to have access to it.

But foreign traditions of tolerance for homosexual activity have not led to broad international support for gay marriage; only Belgium, Canada, Spain, and the Netherlands currently permit gay people to wed.

Pagan religion was very tolerant: the gods of foreign traditions were accepted as long as they were added to the gods worshipped locally.

Meanwhile, the Riverside Dance Festival at Riverside Church offers a week of American-based groups inspired directly or obliquely by foreign traditions.

IF your grade school was anything like mine, teachers seized on Christmas to explore foreign traditions: the Dutch St. Nick, the Russian Babushka — it's a small world after all.

The country, which is struggling to emerge from two decades of fighting and chaos, has also seen a growing number of Somalis returning from Europe and North America, sometimes bringing foreign traditions and attitudes with them.

How have these new religious minorities been affected by the deep-rooted American ambivalence toward foreign traditions? Bruce Lawrence casts a comparativist eye on the American religious scene and explores the ways in which various groups of Asian immigrants have, and sometimes have not, been integrated into the American polity.

The challenges expat moms face in their daily lives are little different from those in their home country; they just have to do it in a foreign language, in the context of foreign traditions and customs, and with no social network at their disposal.