In every family, peer group, school, business and community there are rules of tradition, rules we are expected to follow, rules that set our path and define what our future is likely to be.
It is growing fast and is the world's largest recipient of foreign investment, yet has lots of corruption and nothing that most Westerners would recognise as a rule-of-law tradition.
He also observes the rules of European tradition and will never claim to be better than Eddy Merckx, who came to visit him in the States when Armstrong's life was in the balance.
After four years in power, Mr. Putin has brought his country to a crossroads between the firm, one-man rule of its historic tradition and the possibility of something freer and more open.
Emerson's "Nature" is rightly present, as is one of its direct precursors, Jonathan Edwards's sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"—but amid so much fiddling around, so many exceptions that prove the rule of our nonfiction tradition, the importance and lasting influence of these foundational texts is lost.
I would promise happily to uphold Canada's form of government, democratic principles, rule of law and traditions of free speech and egalitarianism.
Whereas the kings and queens of yesteryear lived and ruled on the basis of tradition, the bourgeoisie embodied a much more restless social system.
Ryan might also insist on the informal Hastert Rule, a tradition of allowing votes only if a bill can pass with a majority of Republicans.
