Sentence examples for human tradition from inspiring English sources

"I think it's entirely within what the human tradition has been, which is to honor that individual while that individual can be so honored".

Unfortunately, behind this shimmering natural spectacle lies a darker human tradition of exploitation and corruption that has impoverished the Kenyan people to whom the reserve actually belongs, a tribe of nomadic cattle herders known as the Masai.

I tried to convince them that seeing a loved one for the last time is an essential human tradition, something my dad had impressed upon me over the years.

"They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos" Stuart Hall was one such aristocrat: a class warrior and a class act who had class.

About one-third of the work is concerned with the problem of justification, while other subjects treated include the church, human tradition, the invocation of saints, marriage of priests, the mass, monastic vows, penitence, and original sin.

Rebecca West sagely complained as early as 1927, "If he would sit still so that life could make any deep impression on him, if he would attach himself to the human tradition by occasionally reading a book which would set him a standard of profundity, he could give his genius a chance".

But few human traditions were more deeply rooted in history than human slavery.

Since 2003, Unesco — the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization — has honored 212 "intangible" human traditions.

The first is that the greatest human traditions are those that contain their own best critique too.

The human traditions of spring are also preserved – and not in aspic, but as living parts of village life.

An evangelical friend once announced to me that he was giving up "extra-biblical human traditions" for Lent.