Sentence examples for tradition of values from inspiring English sources

Moral rightness claims and empirical truth claims are justified by reasons that should be acceptable to a universal audience, whereas ethical claims are addressed to those who share a particular history and tradition of values.

Though we do not have a historical foundation of Confucianism ourselves, perhaps the mania of materialism have also taken a toll on our own tradition of values of respect and dignity.

I may be wrong, but my suspicion is that he would have fared much better in a culture with such a great tradition of valuing the misfit's perspective.

So whenever you hear Republicans say that they are the party of traditional values, bear in mind that they have actually made a radical break with America's tradition of valuing education.

Ultimately, though, the tradition of valuing the worth of managers from north of the border was sustained and prolonged by Ferguson.

Venezuela's polarization has been exacerbated by a tradition of valuing relationships over objective truth.

Greeks have a long tradition of valuing and investing in paideia (education).

When Vatican II (1962-65) honored and promoted the vocation of the laity, it helped to recover a tradition of valuing lay vocations and leadership, a tradition in which St. Francis de Sales played a major role, some four centuries ago.

The old restricted, hierarchical, multi-generational families built on Mao's authoritarian utopianism and an older tradition of Confucian values have been replaced by isolated and impoverished old people, listless ex-farmers, hard-pressed factory girls and children trying to cope alone with extreme educational pressure and unrealistic family expectations.

Each of these chocolate causes builds on a long tradition of Passover values and Jewish ideals.

Latin-American art in general, and Mexican art in particular, has long had links to the European Surrealist tradition, but Galan's painting, besides showing an obvious debt to Dali and Magritte, evokes the folk-art tradition of fixing valued objects to the canvas the artist's "signature".