Sentence examples for upheld tradition from inspiring English sources

Given that wedding announcements are now not so much accounts of upheld tradition as celebrations of individualism, the inclusion of gay weddings makes perfect sense.

She defended Sloanes not only for their charity work all that relentless attending of balls, baking for church fetes, etc but as the bedrock of England, the noble commandants and subalterns who obeyed their superiors, upheld tradition in all its forms and generally kept everything going.

They were institutionalized and thereby commemorative of power and authority, upheld tradition and esteemed order and beauty as highly intellectualized and formal qualities bestowed by the gods, especially Apollo, the god of the Sun, and thereby of order in the cosmos.

Cultural conservatives, Horwitz said, see Putin "as upholding tradition and traditional social arrangements in areas of gender, sexuality, the bounds of speech, and so on".

One of the best aspects of the farm is the fact that they uphold tradition and continue to demonstrate to their clients the "traditional" way of making olive oil through their museum.

To those on usage's ramparts: you uphold tradition.

It's one thing to uphold tradition, which is one of the things that makes Sushi Yasuda wonderful.

Mr. Atsumi's Tora-san is the man who upholds tradition by living outside of it, who celebrates home by remaining homeless.

Frustrated by what they say is a public misperception that they are bigots in opposing gay marriage, the bishops said they were only upholding tradition.

And Dr. Das's losing battle to uphold tradition faces another setback: a grandson plans to marry a non-Indian Christian from Chicago whom he met at Harvard.

Upholding tradition, he played straight, nonswinging eighth notes and quarter notes, but placed them so cannily that they made the songs jump.