Sentence examples for traditions merit from inspiring English sources

Is all music now up for grabs, regardless of context, or do some traditions merit handling with care?

Here are some of the habits, traditions, merits and defects that characterize Italians -- from coffee rituals to tragedies and the lessons we've learned from our past.

The major barriers facing interdisciplinarity in landscape research are academic traditions, the merit system and lack of theory.

In a reassuring development for New York's judicial system, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to continue the city's tradition of merit selection of lower court judges begun by Mayor Edward Koch nearly 25 years ago.

Thus, instead of carrying on a centuries old tradition of merit-based succession, power passed to an unworthy blood relative and corruption followed.

As the Queen opened the General Assembly yesterday, I felt that the power of inherited tradition was not without merit.

Meanwhile, highly rated research projects perceived to be outside the vision appear marginalized, threatening NASA's long and laudable tradition of balanced, merit-based selection.

The outward normalcy, combined with scouting traditions like flag ceremonies and merit badges, made it easy to nearly forget the razor wire crowning fences around nearby buildings.

Perhaps there is some merit in honoring "tradition," but to obstruct our nation's social progress because Bill O'Reilly believes in "traditional" Republican America can't be how we define ourselves now or ever again going forward.

However, this threshold seems to have prevailed more because of traditions and less because of scientific merit as no evidence supporting a threshold of 90 mmHg seems to exist.

Congratulations to him, for earning his "Beefing with the Times" merit badge, a GOP tradition.