The phrase "fundamental tradition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a tradition that is held to be particularly significant. For example, "The fundamental tradition of honoring our grandparents during the holidays is something we hold close to our hearts."
Leon Forrest, a black novelist Ellison took time to praise in our meeting, told me, "Ralph goes back to a fundamental tradition in African-American life.
Any theory on Mappæ should consider that the texts of the fundamental tradition of Mappæ have been subjected to sharp changes.
To summarise, the entire corpus of the manuscripts of Mappæ Clavicula may be divided into three subsets: the fundamental tradition (the first nine manuscripts of Table 1), one descriptus (No. 13 of Table 1), and the remaining 15 manuscripts named the fragmentary tradition of Mappæ.
The church cannot solve any of its deep-seated problems without a bruising debate about one of its fundamental traditions: that the best point of contact between man and God is a celibate male priesthood.
Senior Defense Department officials said the nation's entire nuclear weapons architecture was under review, including such fundamental traditions as whether the nation still needs to maintain a triad of land-based missiles, submarine-launched missiles and bombers.
I'm ashamed because honoring your guest is a fundamental Islamic tradition, a cultural norm that they violated.
However, he added: "A lot of folks from a fundamental unionist tradition are simply asking themselves would direct rule not be better.
At the same time, much criticism has been voiced about such reforms jeopardising the fundamental humanist traditions in teaching, based on beliefs about non-instrumental values of education.
In recent years, the practice of going to church on the last Sunday before election day and then going together to vote has become a fundamental African American tradition.
From 1969 to his retirement in 1998, he was deputy director of SLAC, where he built a top-notch theory group and paved the way for decades of research at the forefront of fundamental science – a tradition that continues to this day.
