Sentence examples for widespread tradition from inspiring English sources

"There is a widespread tradition in this country that a tough border protection policy helps boost confidence in a large-scale immigration policy".

The archaic pattern of the dema deity needs to be distinguished from the widespread tradition among technically more sophisticated agricultural peoples of the bountiful mother earth or the god or goddess of vegetation or special crops.

Such treatments – part of a widespread tradition of "medicinal cannibalism" using flesh, fat, blood and bone – were so popular that come the 18th century, there were customs duties on skulls imported from the battlefields of Ireland.

In addition, living in the husband's house after marriage is a widespread tradition in China (Feldman et al. 2006).

Scientists don't know whether infected milk can sicken people, but experts say the results are reason enough to warn against drinking raw camel milk, a widespread tradition in the Middle East.

Contrasting these methods of dealing with the dead to the corpses left in the bogs, he argues that the latter must represent evidence for a widespread tradition of human sacrifice devoted to a fertility goddess, citing the writings of Tacitus as evidence.

Existing, rooted and widespread traditions confirm the production of ephemeral and toy instruments made of bark, reed (arundo donax), leaves, fibers and stems, as it emerges, for example, from Fabio Lombardi's research.

Following a fairly widespread English tradition, many citizens would announce their votes for the record.

While it is not as widespread a tradition as actors working as waiters -- after all, the city has many more restaurants than museums -- there is a long history of artists working as guards.

He had been ill with salivary gland cancer, which he blamed on the widespread baseball tradition of chewing tobacco.

A long and widespread philosophical tradition holds that self-knowledge is epistemically special, that we have specially "privileged access" to perhaps even infallible or indubitable knowledge of at least some portion of our mentality, in a way that is importantly different in kind from our knowledge of the world outside us (see Section 4 below).