Russia has a long and sturdy tradition of portraying itself as being under siege, from within or without, and of reacting forcefully to any such threat.
There is a sturdy tradition of prison literature through the ages — from the opening section of "Don Quixote" to "Letter from Birmingham Jail" — and a robust and praiseworthy network of prison libraries, mobile book trucks that travel to jails, and reading programs throughout the country.
Similarly, the policy director of the Democratic Leadership Council says Satin's book "ultimately places him in the sturdy tradition of 'idealistic' American reformers who think smart and principled people unencumbered by political constraints can change everything".
He imposes a reedy, na -sounding voice ana -soundingeas about aural space on sturdy American traditions, from Georgia Sea Island songs to R. Kelly.
Put those factors together, plus a few others, and what you have is a sturdy, decades-long tradition of abstraction in American dance.
But risen it has, as dinner parties are built around dozens of sturdy, well-tried traditions -- antipasti, smorgasbord, Andalusian tapas, mezze from the eastern Mediterranean or an assortment of Indian chat.
The tradition is sturdy enough.
Without choruses from Handel's "Messiah," alternately cheery and devotional carols, frothy selections by the Strausses, or indeed any overtly seasonal programming at all, the annual Christmastime concerts by the New York String Orchestra have become a sturdy and satisfying holiday tradition.
Boughton and Ames grew up together at the end of the 19th century in Gilead and followed their own fathers into the ministry there, clinging to adjacent branches of the sturdy tree of Puritan tradition.
Fostered in the traditions of sturdy evangelical piety and liberal reform, he saw the origin and triumph of these values in the Glorious Revolution (1688 89), which firmly established the supremacy of Parliament and restricted the monarchy to a constitutional status.
It is not pretentious, but it is sturdy and in the American tradition.
