For decades, Saddam and his Sunni minority had imposed their will on Iraq, carrying on a 14-century tradition of Sunnis controlling Mesopotamia despite a Shiite majority.
Richard Engel
TraditionWillMinorityMajorityHis
The horses forced into the chuckwagon races die of heart attacks, broken necks, broken legs, and other injuries. It'd be easy to get off on western tradition without this bloody spectacle. Dude, it's the Old West, not ancient Rome!
Tommy Lee
HeartBrokenDieTraditionInjuries
I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
Jack Dee
AttitudePeopleMeThinkTradition
Most of us are having to invent, discover, and create the next steps of our lives without a light, a map, or a relevant tradition.
Marilyn Ferguson
LightTraditionCreateMapWithout
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
Robert Fripp
ResponsibilityKingTraditionYou
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
Ian Mckellen
GreatSchoolTraditionLiberalArts
One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.
Marlo Thomas
LoveNew YorkTraditionYearLiving
Being a great believer in Scottish tradition, I followed the example of my fellow countrymen and moved to England.
Rory Bremner
GreatTraditionBeingExampleMoved
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
Hamza Yusuf
ChildTraditionValuesIslamRights
I really like mugwort. It's a witch plant and a purifier of energy. It's considered to be very important and powerful in the Celtic and Scandinavian tradition.
Kerli
EnergyPlantTraditionPowerfulLike
In a country built on the dreams and accomplishments of an immigrant population, a particularly severe wound is inflicted on that principle when an immigration matter is not conducted in accord with the best of our tradition of courtesy and fairness.
Maryanne Trump Barry
DreamsBestImmigrationTradition
That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
Fernando Flores
TraditionDoingWhyDefendAnything
There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie - she is gone on now - I feel her right with me.
Kimberly Schlapman
CookingMeFeelTraditionDownPie
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
Rowan Williams
OpportunityRichTraditionRome
You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
BestStartTraditionYouBuildTake
People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.
Julian Barratt
PeopleEndComedyTraditionSee
I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.
Marvin Hagler
RespectBestTraditionSugarTried
The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.
Candace Parker
SuccessRichTraditionBuildRight
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James
HistoryTraditionLittleEvenTakes
Selling out Saudi women is an old-established tradition.
Mona Eltahawy
WomenTraditionSellingOutSaudi
There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.
Dan Millman
SpiritualTraditionYouInformation
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.
Gerry Mulligan
DanceTraditionNowThreeJazzBand
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.
Louis de Bernieres
FatherProudTraditionMilitaryVery
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.
Eavan Boland
WomenWomanVoiceTraditionPoet
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