Sentence examples for previous tradition from inspiring English sources

They presided over pioneering marketing techniques and novel campaigns, attracting people with no previous tradition of charitable giving and making Oxfam a household name.

The Élysée's rapid, if terse, announcement represents a break with previous tradition, as the state has maintained tight control over information regarding the health of top officials.

"This is a little too grandiose, but there is a previous tradition in foreign-policy circles of being more nonpartisan, serving the national interest," he said.

Our analysis also suggests that the fast building of this type of infrastructure provides solid grounds for the development of utilitarian cycling, with high cost effectiveness, even in a city without a previous tradition in this sense.

Charles Jencks was one of the first authors to try to depict the architects' reaction to genericness by calling for a "new genre" in the form of "expressive landmarks challenging the previous tradition of the architectural monument" (Jencks 2005, p. 7).

She arrived at the State of the Union in a separate car from Trump, choosing to ride along with some of her honored guests, CNN reported Tuesday, a departure from previous tradition.

Mahler meant it in terms of performance practice, but it's an axiom many contemporary composers have followed to the letter, throwing out any "sloppy" vestiges of previous traditions, the tainted sentimentality of romanticism, the overblown rhetoric of expressionism, or any of the too easily imitated "isms" that have been part of the story of 20th and 21st-century music.

As critics of that self-interpretation have pointed out and Pufendorf himself admitted, elements of the approach were already present in previous traditions, including Stoicism, Roman law, Christian and scholastic thought (particularly Vitoria, Vasquez, and Suarez), and the Grotius commentary literature.

In contrast with previous traditions, ukiyo-e painters favoured bright, sharp colours, and often delineated contours with sumi ink, an effect similar to the linework in prints.

This gives them the opportunity not just to bear the previous traditions and culture, as most people taught, but a chance to celebrate new achievements; they can be freer because their idols are already broken down.

The Qur'an instructs Muslims to show respect to the religious people of previous traditions and says: "Among these are people devoted to learning and people who have renounced the world and are not arrogant".