Sentence examples for tradition refers from inspiring English sources

This was the origin of the Jewish people, according to its own age-old self-understanding: Jewish tradition refers to "Abraham our father," emphasizing the biological kinship between members of the same people.

Thus, the psychoanalytic tradition refers to suppressed, but unconsciously still effective drives or experiences.

Ancient Greek tradition refers to a legendary king of that name as the leader of the Greek colonists.

Ancient tradition refers to only five likenesses of the Buddha, made during his lifetime; two were in India, two in paradise, and the fifth is the Mahamuni Buddha image in Myanmar.

"The rich tradition" referred to by the Prince of Wales in his speech is indeed "something immensely and irreplaceably precious".

Because he stopped the persecution of the Christians, the Christian writers praise his clemency, but the sources dependent on Magian tradition refer to him as "Yazdegerd the Sinner".

New York's Gnawa artists know that on Steinway Street, in Astoria, home to a large Moroccan community, religious conservatives and cultural purists look down on their music — and that, just last year, a prominent musician who performs in the ala tradition referred to Gnawa as "pagan music" (musiqa zandiqiya).

For these pioneering experimentalists, such as Wilhelm Wundt in Germany and William James in America, mental images (often, following the established usage of the Empiricist philosophical tradition, referred to as ideas) held just the same central place in the explanation of cognition that they had held for philosophical psychologists of earlier times.

In 1984, when this reporter took a job teaching tennis at Le Rosey summer school, the kids, according to long-standing student tradition, referred to the cleaning staff as "les esclaves" (the slaves); the local townspeople were termed "les paysans" (the peasants).

In the early 1950s, English Wiccan Gerald Gardner, founder of the Gardnerian tradition, referred to the Pagan Witchcraft community as the Wica.

The tribes share food, song, dance, and gifts along the way, in a tradition referred to as "protocol".