We cannot, therefore, support the report, which makes numerous proposals that encroach on the Member States' areas of competence, for example proposals concerning the provision of child care, where the Member States' traditions and distinctive cultural features are so widely different from one another.
Montana meat loyalty, the Testers say, is a family and state tradition.
This is a country that has a strong state tradition, and a relatively weak civil society.
Take advantage of the remarkably open access that is a state tradition; West Virginians presume their university is for everyone, not just tuition-payers.
Respectful of the longstanding state tradition that there is no situation so bad that it can't be made worse, Paterson's office followed up by sliming Kennedy.
Officials accuse critics of supporting terrorism and have fanned a vitriolic campaign against foreign journalists for purportedly pro-Brotherhood bias.Much of this is bluster, inflated by a long state tradition of repeating slogans until they become accepted facts.
"This verdict is certification of the ongoing state tradition of political murders and its alienation of some citizens as the enemy," Fethiye Cetin, a lawyer for the Dink family, told television reporters at the scene.
When modernity severs the individual from his ties to kin, state, tradition and divine authority, "it must turn the individual over to himself," Kierkegaard writes, so that, in effect, he "becomes his own creator".
A notable state tradition is rowing: locals scull in Washington's many lakes and waterways year-round, and the University of Washington boasts a distinguished rowing history, which includes a gold medal win by the school's eight-man crew over the German national team in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
"There's a long welfare-state tradition in this country in which it's assumed that taxation will fund all public services, including education and higher education," said Prof. Ivor Crewe, president of Universities U.K., an organization made up of the vice chancellors of 122 British universities, which supports the government's proposals.
Instead, it built on Bodin, Lipsius, Grotius, Hobbes, and the Italian reason-of-state tradition.
