It is likely that this unbroken continuity went back still further to the first appearance of the sexagenary cycle during the Shang period.

These are towns blessed by an unbroken continuity of life and ritual that link the modern communities to their barely understood origins.

But the idea of the unbroken continuity of Tibetan religious culture comes across in the chronological mix.

But there's no 'Western religion' around in Europe, in any unbroken continuity.

Only the Golden Path which he could sense in unbroken continuity, only that mattered.

The stress is not only on the idea of progression (from lower to higher) but also on unbroken continuity.

Half a million years of almost unbroken continuity of culture.

He added: "The church in Salem has an unbroken continuity of more than 300 years that is almost unique.

These represent a remarkable unbroken continuity of form at least 600 years old.

The ritual of Somayajna is still held with unbroken continuity in South India.