Sentence examples for overwhelming tradition from inspiring English sources

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In what may well be a nod to tradition, Avicenna counts the "reports (al-akhbâr) to which the soul gives assent on account of unbroken and overwhelming tradition (shiddah al-tawâtur)" as a further credible source for forming practical judgments.[34] For Avicenna, animals have this developed imaginative faculty only.

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While Clarke's tracks were models of efficient digital pop, Moyet was gloriously human, singing in the tradition of overwhelming dance divas like Gloria Gaynor and Patti LaBelle.

Still, overwhelming is overwhelming.

When she arrived in Iowa, in her early 20s, she saw the benefits of coming from a country so small that it had yet to create overwhelming, potentially constricting literary traditions.

"That troubling history teaches why for 200 years the overwhelming practice, and the now settled constitutional tradition, is apportionment based on population," the center wrote.

"The overwhelming consensus," Aslan writes, "is that the traditions contained within the epistle can confidently be traced to James the Just.

The overwhelming majority of studies that comprise this research tradition have used what has been called the 'standard method' [17], which involves using posed still photographs of prototypical facial expressions.

Yusuf simply can't ignore the overwhelming move toward acceptance of gays in a country whose tradition of tolerance he purports to admire.

An overwhelming majority of young voters wants Britain to maintain its tradition of offering sanctuary for refugees, according to a poll that challenges the political belief that an anti-asylum ticket will woo the electorate.

And in a statement, she described the tradition as "a pursuit from the past and like the overwhelming majority of the population I believe that is where it should stay, consigned to history".

On the other hand, many items of folk literature, because of historic movements or overwhelming foreign influences or the mere lack of skillful practitioners of the tradition, become less and less important, and occasionally die out from the oral repertory.

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