Sentence examples for useful tradition from inspiring English sources

This is a rare city in which the useful tradition of the corner store has not been lost.

Indeed, "authorized leaking" to outlets like the Times is a useful tradition which Keller understandably does not want to jeopardize, since such government-approved information gives the Times a jump on its competitors (or at least prevents them from getting a jump on the Times).

Experiential learning ('see one, do one, teach one') has a long and very useful tradition in medical education.

To Anatsui and his peers, sankofa symbolized their effort to find useful traditions — from their own region, from elsewhere in Africa and even from the West.

When deciding what parts of our tradition remain useful to us, we can only assess these seminal texts and figures through the eyes of our present.

Italian design label Piquadro hand make their cabin bags in Tuscan-tanned leather but update tradition with useful, padded technology pockets.

And at a larger level, the basic teachings of our faiths, from our many traditions, offer useful correctives to the practices that brought us to this sad place.

Tradition is a useful guide but, in herbal medicine as in other areas, innovation counts too.

A wider range of interview subjects might have broadened the perspective, yet before criticizing a tradition, it's useful to define it, and Jones (a superb critic who now heads the New York Film Festival) offers deep insight into the watershed moment and the enduring forms of Hitchcock's canonization.

A useful reminder of the long tradition of patriotism as a motivation for artists, the exhibition offers subjects ranging from English and French wars in the 19th century to examples made during World War II by printmakers in the Artists for Victory program in this country.

In keeping with Buddhist tradition, objects thought useful in his journey to the afterlife were laid out before his photo, including drinks, cigarettes, fruit and yellow paper signifying gold, as well as an offering now fashionable in the new Vietnam: stacks of fake American $100 bills.