Sentence examples for strength of tradition from inspiring English sources
And its unusual strength of tradition -- most newcomers are Viennese students of Philharmonic members -- assures continuity.
Habits, sunk costs, the strength of tradition, politics, and established worldviews all maintain the status quo.
"The Gospel of Thomas" may look exotic to modern readers, who cannot help feeling the strength of tradition and the omnipresent authority of the Bible.
The audience in Adelaide gave Flamenco Hoy a standing ovation, testament as much to the strength of tradition as to its vaunted slickness.
KASSALA, Sudan, 7 February 2013 – Sitting in a bed at Saudi Hospital with her newborn, Imtenan, Fatema explains that reaching her decision was easy, in spite of the strength of tradition.
Many such books were burned in 213 bc by the Ch'in emperor Shih Huang-ti, who feared the strength of the tradition they embodied.
China is the closest competitor for the English-speaking record with some 220 million speakers of English, but China does not have the pervasive English linguistic environment encountered in India; nor does it have the strength of linguistic tradition that provides multiple continuities with the rest of the English-speaking world.
Since the colonial period, parades and festivals have been part of city life and the Halloween and Thanksgiving Day parades of modern times illustrate the strength of the tradition; in the 19th century parades also provided occasions for Roman Catholic and Protestant Irish to battle in the streets.
A Certain Summer by Patricia Beard: It is summer, 1948, and the war has brought change upon the idyllic island colony of Wauregan, where only a few years ago, the inhabitants were proud of the strength of unchanging tradition.
The former stressed the need to Europeanize Czech literature, while the latter looked to the strength of native traditions and themes.
The recent killing of the Sikh Guru, Sant Ramanand, a Ravidassia (Dalit) Sikh in Vienna by higher caste Sikhs is a shocking reminder of the strength of these traditions even in small diasporic communities in Europe.
