Sentence examples for reverting to tradition from inspiring English sources

Seeing him through the eyes of a child but with the hindsight of an adult, Sattouf tracks the aspirations of a man who slipped backward instead of forwards, reverting to tradition rather than moving towards the evolution he had hoped for.

How exactly reverting to traditions and religions practised centuries ago would help Nigerians solve their problems today is less clear.

McMaster aimed to revert to tradition.

Nagin reverted to tradition and hired a chief from within the department, a friend since primary school: Edwin P. Compass III.

For his second encore he reverted to tradition, with a poignant rendition of "The Poet Speaks," the gentle final movement from Schumann's "Kinderszenen".

Des Marchais has warned that "Educational reform demands strong and innovative leadership, because the pressure to revert to tradition is always present and may erode the system even as it is put in place" [ 44].

I had to revert to traditional methods.

So when Hedges says that with the counterculture, "dissent became another media spectacle," he's reverting to a venerable tradition in American liberalism of blaming the medium itself.

If he can make it work, he would be reverting to a centuries-old tradition of monarchy in the Caucasus and Central Asia that was interrupted only briefly during the Soviet period, noted Tinatin Khidasheli, a member of the Young Lawyers Associationn in neighboring Georgia.

There was the lord chancellor, Jack Straw — former socialist, former head of the radical National Union of Students — reverting to the old obsequious tradition of walking down the steps of the throne backward away from the queen, so as not to turn his back on her.

The critics contend that after appealing to nationalist sentiments in his campaign, Mr. Roh has already reverted to the tradition of buckling under to the United States.