Sentence examples for tradition written from inspiring English sources

In contrast, in countries with a civil-law tradition written pleadings are only preparatory to the main hearing in open court, where allegations are clarified and proofs offered.

But unlike Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Passover (or even the lesser-known Sukkot and Shavuot), all of which are explicitly mentioned in the Torah, Hanukkah gets only a brief, sketchy reference in the Talmud, the voluminous collection of Jewish oral law and tradition written down hundreds of years after the Maccabees' revolt.

According to an account of MacLeod tradition written in 1797 for the clan's chief, Olaf the Black had three sons by his third wife, Christina, daughter of the Earl of Ross Gunn, from whom descended Clan Gunn; Leandres, from whom descended Clan Leandres in Ross; and Leod.

Eliette Abecassis, a writer steeped in Jewish religious tradition, wrote the script with him.

"It's a nice tradition" writes Mark Purdy in the San Jose Mercury News.

Mr. Leka made his name in the Tin Pan Alley tradition, writing or arranging songs for other people.

In Persian tradition, writing, not just a vehicle for words, has always been a carrier of social critique.

Henry Blake Fuller and Robert Herrick, who belonged to the genteel tradition, wrote several novels that foreshadowed the later Realistic novels of Dreiser and Anderson.

"What the internet is creating is a class of literate, gifted amateur writers, in an old tradition," wrote Roger Ebert in a 2010 blogpost.

In the 1930s, William Butler Yeats, whom Casement admired for his role in reviving Irish lore, history and tradition, wrote a poem in his defense ("What gave that roar of mockery, / That roar in the sea's roar?

He occasionally took pains to align himself with a coherent literary tradition, writing about his admiration for Dostoyevsky, Hamsun, Céline, and Camus — the classics of modern alienation, the biographers of the underground man.