Sentence examples for given up tradition from inspiring English sources

Not everyone has given up tradition.

That doesn't mean Bavarians have given up their traditions.

"We resent being asked to give up a tradition, or hearing from an outsider especially, that a piece of our identity is flawed".

At his family's annual council, the villages agreed to give up the tradition and in 1998 held what is believed to have been Africa's first collective abandonment.

As Maimouna Traoré, a woman who early on joined Demba's efforts to see the end of this practice among the Bambara people, put it: "In giving up this tradition we are not less Bambara.

Giving up this tradition, we relax this assumption and introduce an axiom of ordinal invariance requiring that the Decision Maker's preference between two acts only depends on the relative position of their consequences for each state.

While burgher arms became popular among the merchants of the Middle Ages, by the 16th and 17th century their use was "common among the non-noble officers, judges and priests... while the merchants tended to give up the tradition of heraldic seals and replace them with owner's marks".

"Why are we being made to give up our traditions?" asked Christiaan Steenkamp, a white student living in an overwhelmingly white residence hall.

Farmers fear any compensation awarded by the environmental, resources and development court would not come close to meeting their real costs if they were forced to move, let alone the intangible cost of giving up family traditions.

She says, "You don't have to give up your traditions to be a scientist.

It should come as no surprise that the British enjoy the pageantry and give up cherished traditions reluctantly.