Sentence examples for strict tradition from inspiring English sources

According to strict tradition, she should have traded in her colorful saris for pure white ones.

Strict tradition dictates that any wife he chooses be younger and a virgin.

Women's groups say they are concerned that in the cacophonous aftermath of the revolution, conservative forces could tug the country away from its strict tradition of secularism.

She perfected her technique and wrote a doctoral thesis then a book on the different lines of classical Chinese painting — 18, according to strict tradition.

The 2012 programme mixes strict tradition such as the opening of the Guild Court on the Monday after the Feast of the Beheading of St John the Baptist (which falls today, Wednesday 29 August, in case you wondered).

At university, Bin Laden, who had been raised in the strict tradition of Saudi "Salafist" Islamic practice known outside the kingdom as Wahhabism, was exposed to newer, more politicised and often anti-clerical religious doctrines.

"We are an island with strict traditions.

Palace balls, however, with their strict traditions and manners, ended with a revolutionary crash in 1917.

For women this poses particular problems, as strict traditions on modesty mean they can only go in the dark.

Strict traditions and modesty mean that women often go to relieve themselves after nightfall, which leaves them particularly vulnerable to attacks.

Using rare and unseen archive Billy goes on a moving journey through space and time - from farm life in northern India to the searing heat of work in the steel factories of Britain's Black Country; from extreme rural poverty to the have-it-all consumer culture of today; from strict traditions to a world of tolerance and the modern permissive society.