Sentence examples for tenacious tradition from inspiring English sources
"The most luxuriant, tenacious tradition of paranoiac agitation in American history," said John Higham.
David planned to build a temple to house the ark, but the tenacious tradition of the ark's portability in a tent shrine forced the postponement of the project to the reign of his son Solomon.
The battle over bake sales, a tenacious civic tradition, has struck a deep chord with home cooks and food historians.
These filmmakers saw their medium as a vehicle for social progress, and they believed that the innate American sense of decency and fair play would, with some prodding from the movies, overcome equally tenacious American traditions of prejudice and intolerance.
Their latest LP, released by Sub Pop Records, is packed with genre parodies in the tradition of Tenacious D and Beck.
Following the tradition of their tenacious movement, settlers converted sorrow and anger into territorial gain, building a rough outpost near the site of the Friday ambush.
Another hoped the dead boy might be reincarnated in America, where "studying is relaxed and the homework load is light too".The campaign to criticise Dr Spock and ConfuciusIn a month which saw a statue of Confucius unveiled near Tiananmen Square, few dispute that Chinese tradition has a tenacious grip.
The report's authors stress that the tradition still has a tenacious hold in many places, but they say the fledgling declines may foreshadow more generational change.
And with no glimmer of hope in sight, we find ourselves wondering whether these taciturn folk are the tenacious true believers of Western movie tradition, or plain fools who are going to die.
In nearby Deer Isle village, a performing arts center was built within the last two years through an equally tenacious local initiative and has further affirmed a tradition of live performing arts on the island.
He's radical only in his tenacious defense of what he sees as a distinctly American tradition.
