traditions

Rather than seeing these oral traditions as discrete historical experiences, historians interpret such “foundation traditions” as symbolic templates for examining the general historical processes of transforming small-scale polities into larger kingdoms.

3. Historical Trends, 1000-1500 2001

_ The dear old traditions, -- they are indeed _traditions_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various

One of the happiest of our traditions is the presence of our Honorary Vice-President, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, at our annual Christmas party.

Christmas Luncheon 1974

The second is what you call your traditions, your belief in wasting human life.

The Purchase Price Emerson Hough 1890

Among their ancient traditions is making wine, in a way that has changed little since the time of the Roman Empire.

Ancient Winemaking Makes Resurgence in Southeast Turkey 2010

Among their ancient traditions is making wine, in a way that has changed little since the time of the Roman Empire.

Ancient Winemaking Makes Resurgence in Southeast Turkey 2010

Life, within many Christian and Islamic traditions is a mixture of actuality and potentiality.

ProWomanProLife » Emergency contraception 2010

In major religious traditions, is happiness a good thing, or bad?

April L. Bogle: The Role of Happiness in the World Religions April L. Bogle 2010

In this case, Horn doesn't so much lean on the "literature of a former era" (she actually takes this as part of her subject, and her examination of Jewish artistic/literary traditions is one of the more compelling aspects of the novel) as on this set of presently-established conventions, themselves a product of "modern" storytelling practices but, as I have been contending, now urgently in need of reexamination.

Point of View in Fiction 2009

But there were certain traditions of hospitality that prevented Sheldon from breathing a hint that it was time for his guest to take himself off.

Chapter 26 2010