Sentence examples for primary tradition from inspiring English sources

In a city that embraces change as its primary tradition, the shifting population base of New York remains its most dramatic story.

That's where Wisconsin Democrats come in: Wisconsin's open primary tradition means you can vote in Ryan's primary -- which gives you, through a harmonic convergence of circumstance, a strange and shocking power.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been the primary religious tradition since 1887, but church attendance decreased significantly in the late 20th century.

While home visits in Germany seem to represent a primary care tradition and are rated to have clear advantages with regard to patient care they are nevertheless perceived as an obligation by many GPs.

Within the medieval Arabic-speaking world there were two primary intellectual traditions in which natural philosophy was done: kalam and falsafa.

Primary was the tradition and expertise that developed in the region in the centuries following the monastic reform of the 14th century, building on the growth in number and prominence of monasteries, abbeys and churches from the 12th century that had already produced significant numbers of liturgical texts.

As Riesman understood it, the primary disciplining emotion under tradition direction is shame, the threat of ostracism and exile that enforces traditional action.

But the country's long tradition of primary reliance on confessions for conviction, and the informal ties linking the local police, prosecutors and judges, have hampered progress.

"Primary" osteoporosis is, by tradition, a skeletal disorder of postmenopausal women ("postmenopausal" osteoporosis) or of older men and women ("senile" osteoporosis).

The buyer is about 53, largely male, self-made and likes the primary attributes of Bentley rarity, tradition, power and brashness.

Insisting that even though his coven would contain only men, it should still embrace gender polarity, he set up the Cretan Snake Goddess Rhea as the tradition's primary deity.