Sentence examples for the pressures of tradition from inspiring English sources

His work presents the quiet, everyday challenges faced by the common man: changing families, money troubles, broken hearts, sexual anxiety, and the pressures of tradition.

The pressures of tradition were so strong, though; I couldn't refuse to participate.

We succumb to the pressures of traditions.

Chang's world is a stark and mysterious place where people strive to find their way in love but often fail under the pressures of family, tradition, and reputation.

From the economist's perspective, the period was marked by the breakdown of a coordinative mechanism of centralized command, the rise of the mixed pressures of tradition and local command characteristic of the feudal manor, and the gradual displacement of those pressures by the material penalties and rewards of an all-embracing market network.

Styling themselves a band rather than a string quartet allowed them to sidestep the pressures of classical music tradition and expectation.

Reason revealed that Conti could no more resist the pressures of his peers and traditions than Boufflers could forget the years she had devoted to him.

As the mid-century novelist Eileen Chang — the city's most famous writer — once put it, "The people of Shanghai have been distilled out of Chinese tradition by the pressures of modern life.

But the real outcome of the struggle between the sacred and profane which began under Peter lies outside the scope of her book, for it was not fully manifest until the 19th century when there emerged, in reaction to the pressures of modernism, a monastic and mystical tradition whose intensity had not been seen in Christendom for a millennium.

Boy heroes clearly had a hard time surviving the nineteenth-century migration of fairy tales from the communal hearth into the nursery, when oral storytelling traditions, under the pressures of urbanization and industrialization, lost their cross-generational appeal.

Cheng Ping, a professor at the academy who oversaw the survey of more than 900 officials, said that such beliefs were the result of millennia-old traditions melded with the pressures of careers in which promotions are earned through mastering the dark arts of factions and favors, rather than hard work.