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tradition

A tradition is something that has been done in the same way for a long time. Despite a long tradition of education, there is still a lack of qualified teachers They continue the tradition of winter football which started in the 1800s. Tradition says that we need a drink before the speech.

tradition

an inherited pattern of thought or action (= custom) a specific practice of long standing

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Simple sentences

We must have respect for tradition.
It's commonly supposed that all fairy tales are stories from the folk tradition, passed through the generations by storytellers since the dawn of history.
It's an old Irish tradition.
The story is founded on tradition.
That old tradition has disappeared.
This tradition has been passed down from generation to generation.
He turned his back on the old tradition.
This is a Turkish tradition.
It's an American tradition to make a wish on your birthday.
It is a Chinese tradition to welcome spring with flowers.
The tradition of making a wish when you see a shooting star is very old.
It's a time-honored tradition.
According to Christian tradition, Sunday is the first day of the week.
This tradition is bullshit.
Tradition is only an excuse for sloppiness.
In Japan, celebrants took turns in striking Buddhist temple bells, an ancient tradition.
This tradition is followed in most households.
Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress.
Purists are to be defeated. Language is not to be kept in the cage of tradition.
This tradition arose in China.
That tradition has fallen by the wayside.
They buried those who had died in battle according to military tradition.
That tradition has fallen into desuetude.
It's a stupid tradition.
This is a family tradition.

Movie subtitles

That strange Antipodean and tradition of a mighty roast on a sweltering summer's day.
He comes from a family of great tradition.
And I hope, in 30 years' time, a youngster of yours will be carrying on the tradition.
Even in these parts, tradition tells how certain areas were haunted by vampires. Just 25 years ago, a murderous epidemic claimed 11 victims in the village of Courtempierre.
Then our glorious and laudable Army. the old, proud, standard bearers of our people. who are equally tradition minded. will champion the Political Leadership and the Party.
Centuries of tradition kicked right in the pants.
I even persuaded him to replace the venerable garment that had become another Brookfield tradition.
Bald Mountain, according to tradition, is the gathering place of Satan and his followers.
It's an old Norwegian tradition.
You know, Larry, there has developed a tradition about the Talbot sons.
The tradition also insists the Talbots be the stiff-necked, undemonstrative type.
It's been bound up with naval tradition since times immemorial.
It's become a tradition for her to win the cup and her roses mean so much to her.
Isn't that Beldon tradition to marry young?
It's tradition.
It's an old tradition.
It's tradition, you see.
As a marquis, I uphold tradition.
You modern fathers have no respect for tradition.
Annapolis and west point have a long and glorious tradition.
The oldest tradition of any American service.
Stupid useless bourgeoisie tradition.
To expand the living room, also a tradition.
This is against all tradition.
Yes, but it is the family tradition.
The Pyncheon tradition will not be sold.
As a student of law, Jaffrey.. You know the bankruptcy court does not accept family tradition as legal tender.
I burst with pride when I recall Johnathan's contribution to Pyncheon tradition.
You have the house. With it.. you have inherited the Pyncheon tradition.
All the tradition of your ancestors.
Well, they think the only way to keep up the tradition is to lead a dull life. and marry one of themselves.
Bart and I don't believe in tradition.
Especially after all that talk I've heard about tradition, the esprit de corps.
Annapolis and West Point have a long and glorious tradition.
But you have a tradition, too.

News and current affairs

But Serbia claims that the province remains an essential part of its historical and cultural tradition.
Situated figuratively between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islam, and democracy and tyranny, Turkey also is an actual physical bridge between East and West.
In this, he is following a tradition of caution that extends from Edmund Burke to John Maynard Keynes.
This aristocratic tradition of standing above the narrow strains of ethnic nationalism may be the best argument to hang on to royalty a little longer.
A first-use of nuclear weapons by the US should be unthinkable, and responding to a non-nuclear attack with nuclear weapons violates a central tenet of just war and US military tradition.
Iran has a tradition of architectural design that has revealed key insights to cognitive scientists.
The UK's unwritten constitution is based entirely on tradition and precedent.
Blair's legacy has thrown Brown into a confusing oscillation between Britain's transatlantic tradition and its European connections.
The situation of the political right in each Central European country is also influenced by experiences that are rooted in history and tradition.
I think the Russians don't get much credit, even recognition, for the unprecedented equanimity with which they shrugged off centuries of imperial tradition.
The Chechen War was, thus, a war for our Constitution, which differs from, say, the American Constitution only by the depth and length of its tradition.
But though ours is a young constitutional tradition, Russians have been breathing democratic air for ten years now.
A legal tradition vastly different from the West, and decades of Maoist rule before the Deng era, make rapid change in Chinese legal institutions impossible.
This, too, is a Chinese tradition.
First, the country has inherited a patriarchal tribal tradition that assumes women's inferiority.
Journalists adopted tactics of underground publication, in the best tradition of East European samizdat.
However discomfiting a possibility, the real culprit might be Indian culture and tradition itself.
Legislation alone won't help, for tradition is a law unto itself.
Gradually, this would become the norm, and tradition would adjust accordingly.
On a recent visit organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the coexistence of entrenched tradition and rapid transformation was starkly apparent.
Rather, it more likely represents another move in India's age-old tradition of managing regional balances of power.
In the Hollywood tradition, of course, the American hero fighting an indigenous enemy is innocent and moral, a reluctant warrior bringing democracy, or at least justice, to feral savages.
And, sadly, things have become worse in the past 30 years, as Afghanistan's particular brand of Islam, combined with its legacy of dire poverty and war, compounds an already misogynist pre-Islamic tradition.
But will the new generation of Republicans continue this tradition?
Drawing Kazakhstan westward would help embed this secular tradition.
This is where the United States really is different from France and Germany, while Britain has a similar tradition of distrusting the state rather than relying on it.

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