Tradition binds service members not only to their organizations but also to the millions who have gone before them.
That might make this sound soppy, but the script's nuanced treatment of the complex relationships and a feel for the many-faceted, multicultural city in which it's set – a unique urban blend of hedonism and tradition, bound together by hummus and history – redeem any shortcomings.
Technology is transforming law from a sole-source, clubby, homogenous, tradition bound, pedigree-centric, labor-intensive parochial guild into something entirely different.
This could be viewed as symptomatic of deeper structural problems in our tradition bound 240 year-old democracy.
In years past, the knock against the nation's oldest civil rights organization was that it was too staid, and tradition bound.
While negotiations were continuing and Lagoon was enjoying trade attention from a tradition bound exhibition system, it became apparent that while The Terminal Man had unique production values and a major star, it was going to require more financial commitment than the Valley or Splash.
This is the time now for women filmmakers to use the powerful tools of digital technology to draw together history and disparate traditions, bind together diverse fields of human endeavor, discover the commonalities between races and religions.
As in most old industrial cities, people arranged themselves by class, and such traditions, bound by economics, die hard.
Whatever the case, Prunty has spent the last two decades trying to find an answer by examining the ways in which human experience is made up of small traditions bound together into a larger story -- the subset of ritual within narrative, one might say.
In a very tradition- bound part of Ethiopia, change is actually happening.
