Sentence examples for tradition of exploration from inspiring English sources

This great tradition of exploration by such explorers as Leif Erikkson and his father, Erik the Red, continued into modern times, exemplified by such men as Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen, and Thor Heyerdahl.

"The aim of our London map was to evoke England's history and tradition of exploration.

The American Empress is a paddle wheel boat specifically designed to celebrate the centuries-old tradition of exploration in the West.

A slyer reading of National Geographic might be that its real cultural purpose was to reconcile the British scientific establishment with the American one — or, perhaps more to the point, to use the British eccentric tradition of exploration to humanize the more uptight American kind.

Economic downturn seemed to have brought about the end of manned spaceflight in America and by extension, this country's greatest science experiment — an endeavor that framed science in mythical terms, linking the efforts of Mission Control nerds in short-sleeved dress shirts to a tradition of exploration and cowboyish adventure.

Well, it turns out that sexting really isn't that big of a deal; it's merely a continuation of the age-old tradition of "exploration" and all that.

WHY THEY CAME To celebrate Dr. Illig's 38th birthday, capping a tradition of explorations of parts of the city outside of Manhattan that began when they moved from California five years ago.

The adventure, in the finest tradition of Norwegian exploration, gripped the imagination of the world.

If these judgments had been fiction, they would have belonged in the tradition of moral exploration that includes Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad.

The expedition, covered intensely by Russian news organizations and state-controlled television, mixed high-seas adventure with the long Russian tradition of polar exploration.

Russia has a long tradition of northern exploration and extraction, and since early Soviet times the Kremlin has had research stations on the Arctic ice.