Sentence examples for lingering tradition from inspiring English sources

In a field still dominated by men, there's a lingering tradition of paternalistic tools and techniques such as locking inheritances up in trusts for widows who presumably can't even balance a checkbook, let alone manage hundreds of thousands or millions in assets, or who might fall prey to financial predators.

Only the most literal care that the British system descends from ancient orders of chivalry created to shore up the power of the aristocracy and the military – because, like most other lingering traditions, they are infinitely malleable.

There is a high measure of standardization in kind and style, despite lingering local traditions in more remote areas.

Second, that India's lingering bureaucratic and protectionist traditions still place frustratingly tight and complicated limits on foreign ownership.

That tradition lingered longer than you might think.

Even today the TW3 tradition lingers on in the barbed weekly sketches of the two Johns, Bird and Fortune.

In the Farm Belt states of the Midwest, said Dr. James L. Watson a professor of anthropology at Harvard, the tradition lingers that a family's success is best embodied by the bounteousness of its table.

(The retired performers aren't the only traces of the circus remaining in Sarasota, it seems. "The circus tradition lingers here in a delightful way," one of my friends wrote me.

But it's not the propulsive gospel that drove 1960s soul music; it's the tradition of the spiritual, lingering on each extravagant phrase.

For many on the Eastern seaboard, the lingering effects of Hurricane Sandy have upended traditions old and new this summer, even as the region recovers.

(Winebow, New York) Kuentz-Bas Alsace Riesling, $16, ** ½ Tradition 2008 Tart and taut with lingering flavors of ripe peaches and mint.