Sentence examples for generations of tradition from inspiring English sources

But at least one family in Amatlán has decided to break with generations of tradition.

In the same way that generations of tradition dictate the churches people attend, the races tend to bury their own.

They expected her to follow generations of tradition, to become pregnant numerous times in quick succession and then be sterilized.

But a baseball double-header on Tuesday broke with generations of tradition as the school made peace with "The Star-Spangled Banner," playing it over the public-address system.

"The Boys Scouts of America has been built upon the values of faith and family for more than 100 years and today's decision contradicts generations of tradition in the name of political correctness," Perry said in a statement.

As night fell at the palace, the crowds realized that nothing else was going to happen — Queen Elizabeth, for instance, was not going to ruin generations of tradition and suddenly come out to answer their questions — and began to dissipate.

Unless one is prepared to ground ethics on Platonic forms, innate ideas, natural laws, God-guaranteed [End Page 591] reason, or some other non-empirical and, hence, unpalatable foundation, one cannot do better than an appeal to generations of tradition-founding sages.

And they did it their way, honoring generations of traditions and values.

Bowing to criticism that too many students were receiving A's, the Harvard University faculty voted yesterday to overturn at least a generation of tradition by adopting a marking system more like that of most American colleges.

He even bravely broke with generations of family tradition to declare that he loved Joe Paterno more than Notre Dame.

This love of words and their power was born in me during the strike, and inspired me to break generations of family tradition by moving away from the mines.