Sentence examples for tradition needs from inspiring English sources

That tradition needs to end.

But tradition needs to be balanced with brave forward motion.

Salvation Army officials say the kettle tradition needs to be tweaked as consumers increasingly carry only plastic.

At root, the experimental regionalism the alternate tradition needs demands more than a broad distaste for consumerism and the strip mall.

— Anna Laetitia Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" For all their arguments about the past, one senses that both editors are ultimately concerned about the poetry and poets of today, as many anthologists are and should be: a tradition needs heirs.

Cartesian linguistics is intimately connected with the notion of Universal or Philosophical Grammar and, given its revival in Chomsky's generative approach to language and his naming of Humboldt as one of his immediate precursors, Humboldt's relation to this tradition needs to be clarified.

Stories from the oral tradition need to be heard to be appreciated.

The notion was long entrenched in the West that works from outside its central artistic tradition needed to be different.

The reason, he says, is that Americans, lacking tradition, need theory but have little time for philosophical argument — so they are usually inclined to accept whichever new theory comes around and give it instant tenure.

Hooker avoided both extremes, allowing to Scripture absolute authority when it spoke plainly and unequivocally; where it was silent or ambiguous, wisdom would consult the tradition of the church, but he insisted that a third element lay in human reason, which should be obeyed whenever both Scripture and tradition needed clarification or failed to cover some new circumstance.

His first two attempts at the longer form - The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers - felt like the work of a born short-story writer being stretched on a rack by his publisher and literary tradition, needing help from typeface and spacing to qualify even as novellas.