Sentence examples for tradition found from inspiring English sources

The characters' names are taken from Platonic dialogues, while Archer is the young "warrior against tradition" found on a Greek vase in the museum.

Avery Fisher Hall, a seat of Western tradition, found itself surrounded by all things Middle Eastern; the interlopers, on the other hand, had only peace and love on their agendas.

The North American tradition, found in countries influenced by the United States and Canada, places a larger emphasis on credit programs duplicating courses offered to regular undergraduates; such programs are offered via television or correspondence or in separate urban colleges.

Among the Shīʿites there are several subsects; notable are the Ismāʿīlīs (or Seveners)—including the Nizārīs (followers of the Aga Khans, among whom are the Khojas and the Bohrās), who are prominent in commerce and industry—and the Ithnā ʿAshariyyah (or Twelvers), who are more austere in their practices and more closely resemble the Shīʿite tradition found in Iran.

That eight-hour production, which he called "a national requiem," could be seen as a fitting culmination to the long Eastern European literary tradition (found in writers from Stanislaw Witkiewicz to Pavel Kohout and Vaclav Havel) that treated Hamlet as a type and his dilemma as a syndrome.

This is the cue for the band to disperse from the bar – home to Hampshire, Oxford, the Yorkshire moors, Newcastle and all points in between (only one of them lives in the capital) before they'll reconvene on the road: representatives of the diversity within tradition found in this country, mischievously determined to play with that tradition, and weaving very slightly.

At certain points the Gospel tradition finds independent confirmation in the letters of the apostle Paul.

At certain points the Gospel tradition finds independent confirmation in the letters of the Apostle Paul.

That tradition finds 20th-century expression in the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the ethicist and Lutheran minister who conspired against Hitler.

It was only three years ago that French cuisine was added to the UNESCO list of "world intangible heritage," and already the gastronomic tradition finds itself under serious attack.

So how did a city with this tradition find itself in 1945 with just six major works of art from the 20th century?