Sentence examples for human traditions from inspiring English sources

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

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

This is an important subject: how much will the human traditions of ecstatic dance, group celebration and Carnival preserve autonomy and help preserve the dignity of individuals?

Articles attached to the BCP proclaimed that each national or particular church had a right to order its own affairs so far as human traditions were concerned, and no church should teach as necessary for salvation anything not plainly to be demonstrated from the Bible.

The long-term impact of these disruptions to deep-seated human traditions is not yet known.

It's one of the oldest human traditions: sitting around a campfire or in a cave, telling stories.

"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.

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".

People are loth to break with centuries of human tradition; they are also loth to see child-rearing outside heterosexual unions.The Democratic presidential candidates have so far handled this by favouring civil unions but drawing the line at homosexual marriage (only three no-hopers support the marriage option).