Sentence examples for foreign traditions from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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?

Yet the United States was on the verge of the greatest reversal of its foreign policy traditions since 1917.

Despite heated criticism from the intellectuals and politicians, Mr. Fox abandoned foreign policy traditions that kept the United States at arm's length.

His epilogue is a blistering, star-spangled essay about how far the United States has drifted from its most noble foreign policy traditions.

My attention kept straying to Chinese members of the Dublin audience, wondering what the effect of familiar language but foreign theatrical traditions must be like for them.

An "expansive, even aggressive global policy was consistent with American foreign policy traditions," because the essence of Americans' patriotism "has been inextricably tied to a belief in their nation's historic global significance".

"President Fox dramatically changed Mexico's foreign policy traditions, moving Mexico closer to the United States with the argument that it was the best way to get more U.S. support," he said.

Through his translations and essays he intended to make foreign literary traditions and literary works accessible to the German public, but he also thought that the opposite was necessary.