Sentence examples for persistent tradition from inspiring English sources
Excavation is continuing at the site; the monumental architecture and persistent tradition of sculpture in a variety of styles suggest the site was of some importance.
Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy — a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.
Although equations (2.3) and (2.5) are classical results in population genetics [ 22, 24], a persistent tradition in experimental evolution has been to measure relative fitness in continuously growing populations as rm/ rw, that is, as a ratio of Malthusian parameters [ 6, 7, 23, 25– 28].
A rich and persistent annalistic tradition and a growing emphasis on history as a repertoire of moral examples characterized the earliest Chinese historiography.
What Leavis meant by intellectual training was the Bible, reading, the stimulus of mixing in an intelligent circle, all that was provided by a "still persistent cultural tradition" that had as its main drive religion, conversation, curiosity, and a fiercely self-respecting family life.
That stance was also on display throughout her various campaign actions in the marginalized southeast region of Mexico, where especially profound gender inequalities exist thanks to a persistent cultural tradition of men dominating decision-making at every level.
To find out how persistent such traditions are, Dr Aplin and her colleagues came back nine months later (a period in which, on average half the resident tits had died and been replaced by other individuals) and put some of the boxes out again.
From this perspective, highly persistent cultural traditions reflect what is in essence an extreme form of biased cultural transmission (e.g., [16], [17], but see [18]).
The persistent rule of tradition and customs poses a challenge to the fulfilment of human rights.
The tradition was persistent.
This tradition persisted.
