Superficially, giving those powers to Betty Boothroyd, the current speaker, or her successors as speaker might seem to get around that, since her office is by tradition a non-partisan one.

ECONOMIST: The monarchy

Throughout its history, the Board has closely guarded its special status and tradition of non-partisan independence by making every effort to ensure the strict confidentiality of its deliberations and communications, and the unimpeachable objectivity of its advice.

WHITEHOUSE: History

Structured in a rally format instead of the more tradition, non-stop Baja endurance competition, the NORRA Mexican 1000 offers Team SRI a unique opportunity to demonstrate the capabilities of the EV1 thanks its multi-day schedule and a series of off-road Special Stages linked via on-road transit sections.

ENGADGET: SRI EV1 brings all-electric racing to the Mexican 1000 rally (video)

When we speak and write of Islam, as we do for example of Christianity, we mean simultaneously a faith-tradition with its non-negotiable core doctrine and an institutional framework of socio-political order built by human enterprise in the name of that faith-tradition.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Spain and Italy have relatively few personal computers or other internet access, and a more durable tradition of buying from local, non-chain shops.

ECONOMIST: Why online retailing is booming so fast in Britain

The comments reflect a practicality common among Western diplomats and officials trying to win hearts and minds in the Middle East and other non-Western countries where democracy isn't a tradition.

CNN: U.S. officials rethink hopes for Iraq democracy

Their sultan was descended from a royal line, but there was a tradition of selecting the operational head of the government, the grand vizier, from non-Turkish stock.

NPR: The History of Political Succession