Sentence examples for martial tradition from inspiring English sources

"There is a martial tradition".

Happy Valley is a nation, nestled in the rolling green of Pennsylvania, currently wrestling with its martial tradition and the disgrace roiling its core.

FOR some members of Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority, the defeat of the country's Tamil Tiger rebels last year belongs to a glorious martial tradition.

Speakers at the dedication yesterday of a $7 million plaza memorializing New York City's fallen Vietnam warriors kept looking ahead to Veterans Day while looking back on the city's centuries-old relationship with martial tradition.

The only summer camps in our universe were single-sex, situated in Maine, rustic to the point of deprivation, lasted eight weeks, modelled themselves on a martial tradition, and had a strict uniform of white polo shirts, shorts in the camp color, and docksiders.

Despite this long and distinguished martial tradition, there are only 265 Sikhs currently serving in the British Armed Services.

Song sequences — about weddings, religious devotion and Punjabi martial traditions — are refreshing gulps of air amid the solemnity.

And his formidable ability to call upon Serbs' fears, national myths, martial traditions, and sense of righteous victimhood has been amply demonstrated over the past decade.

Whitehall's military planners are struggling to recruit an officer class from among ethnic minorities (Sikh martial traditions must be a promising starting point?) just as most police forces do, a shameful failure though it isn't easy (check out Fleet Street).

Steeped in martial traditions, many of them were expert in clandestine operations involving targeted killings, torture and disappearances.

Most volunteers for the regiment came from Mashonaland, much to the surprise of the white recruiters, who had expected Matabeleland, with stronger martial traditions, to provide more men.