Sentence examples for significant tradition from inspiring English sources

In the contemporary West there is a significant tradition of body art.

Scholars have identified more than a dozen folk references so far, but there's an even more significant tradition behind The Rite.

And also in the mix was the subtle, yet significant tradition of faith-filled lay activists like Fannie Lou Hamer and Marian Wright Edelman.

The building, and the artworks it contains, are a radical experiment in cultural engineering in a region where there is no significant tradition of modern art.

We didn't know it at the time but it was the start of a significant tradition: in the next 26 years, Ferguson's United scored well over 100 counterattacking goals.

"A Chronicle of Corpses" belongs to the small but significant tradition of outsider art in American movies -- films like Herk Harvey's "Carnival of Souls" or George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" -- that reflect powerful personalities formed outside any academic or professional tradition.

To begin with, in their 1931 article "Logical Positivism: A New Movement in European Philosophy," Feigl and Blumberg presented the logical positivist approach as the synthesis of two "significant traditions" (Feigl/Blumberg 1931, p. 281): the classical "positivistic-empirical" current in European philosophy, and the development of modern (mathematical) logic.

We have significant traditions of poetry and mysticism in which homoerotic desire is fused with Islamic spirituality.

There wasn't a significant or important tradition that survived from the voyages of the Vikings".

"Fireworks are a significant cultural tradition and were invented in China thousands of years ago.

The subtractive technique used to create these objects suggests the presence of a significant woodcarving tradition.