On the one hand - saying no to gun control and preserving what many regard is a proud national tradition.
Every year, Budweiser tries anew to convince us that the Clydesdales are a treasured national tradition rather than a marketing device.
French kids with an entire national tradition of great cinema are instead obsessed with "South Park" (Eric Cartman's face is more ubiquitous in the French countryside than bitter, entitled-feeling farmers).
Albans, Vermont, writes: I am a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S., and I find it unbelievable that the CBC would have the nerve to change the theme song of a true national tradition.
Revellers in the city centre greeted the new year by eating 12 grapes in time with the chimes at Madrid's central Puerta del Sol clock in a national tradition, while hundreds of thousands partied in Berlin to live music in the landmark Brandenburg Gate.
After warming up in a Finnish sauna -- a national tradition -- guests don socks for a 50m, often naked run through the snow to a manmade hole in the ice, where they can safely use a step ladder to dip in the icy lake waters below.
That was hardly a recipe for the sort of confidence some Welsh fans and pundits were displaying ahead of the clash with Australia, a team honour-bound by national tradition to do all in their power to redeem themselves in the eyes of a hyper-critical public and media.
By abandoning their realist tradition of national defense and martial preparedness, the Europeans allowed a mortal threat to metastasize and grow, instead of striking it at early and preventing it from taking shape.
America has a grand tradition of national planning, from Thomas Jefferson's vision for roads and canals in 1808, which influenced policy for the next century (and led to America's first transcontinental railway) to Dwight Eisenhower's Federal Highway-Aid Act of 1956, which created the interstate system.
President Teddy Roosevelt established the tradition of rewarding the national party chairman of a successful presidential campaign with the job of postmaster general.
Harry Truman continued the tradition by picking Democratic national chairman Robert Hannegan, who had played a key role in getting Truman named to the ticket in 1944, to be his postmaster general.
For lack of a better name, it is what historian Walter Russell Mead has referred to as Jacksonianism, after Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the US. As Mead noted in a 1999 article in The National Interest titled "The Jacksonian Tradition, " the most popular and enduring US model for foreign policy is far more flexible than either the isolationist or the neoconservative model.
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Perhaps the absence of a strong stylistic tradition, married with a national weakness for eccentricity, allows British designers a freedom that their continental counterparts lack.
Thanks partly to the puritan tradition, partly to a national suspicion of pretension, it has always been more at home with the prosaic and the dowdy.
An annual landmark it may be, but, like that other great Australian cricketing tradition, the worship of the national cap, or baggy green, it's actually a fairly recent phenomenon.
"Respecting and caring for the elderly is not only a Chinese tradition, but also a symbol of national civilization and progress, " he said.
The private schools that are dominant in football year after year are those with the money, alumni and tradition to aspire to becoming a quasi-national program, with appearances on ESPN helping to attract players from a wide-ranging area.
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National identity also ties an individual to an inheritance, a tradition, a loyalty, and a culture.
This tradition endures, especially at military cemeteries like Arlington National Cemetery where an American flag is placed on every single grave.
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Our documentary concludes that most politicians believe this will only be possible if India's age-old tradition of religious tolerance remains at the centre of its national ideology.
Kennedy became the first U.S. President to "pardon" a turkey at the White House -- a tradition that's grown to be known as the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation.
This could be a basis for national self-awareness and even for pride in the country's tradition of freedom and tolerance.
Or is it, as the National Union of Teachers claims, legislation that "rides roughshod" over the tradition of local democratic accountability of schools?
This was a tradition born out of a desire to appear to be putting the national interest before political ambition even if this was not their true intent.
From the infrastructure perspective, they have a rich tradition of ball players, fields and instructors, as baseball is their national game.
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Lefkaritika are included in the Heritage Archives of the Municipality of Lefkara and in the Archives of Oral Tradition of the Scientific Research Centre of Cyprus as well as at the National Heritage Index being created by experts at the Cyprus Research Centre.
U5: After having been included in the heritage inventories of the various counties in which this tradition remains active, the design and practices of bridge building were included on the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage administered by the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture.
Shell broke with a longstanding tradition of alternating British and Dutch chief executives with the July 2009 appointment of Voser, a Swiss national.
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