Sentence examples for A customary procedure from inspiring English sources

A customary procedure is to build several test airplanes solely to verify the design.

One officer carefully checked his ID, hardly a customary procedure for every City Hall visitor.

The National Transportation Safety Board has provided observers, a customary procedure because the plane was built in the United States.

She was sentenced, along with 22 others, by hooded military judges — then a customary procedure for dealing with accused terrorists.

The classification of pesticides by hazard is based principally on the acute oral and dermal toxicity to the rat which is a customary procedure in toxicology.

The fact that the French ministry of culture was never handed a sales certificate — a customary procedure for any sale outside of France of a painting worth over 150,000 Euros ($162,000) — also raised suspicion.

The judges noted that the S.E.C. staff declined to seek the prosecution of Mr. Matthews and that, in a departure from customary procedure, the Justice Department brought the charges against him on its own.

As a result, the customary procedure was to operate into the abdominal cavity, which was often excessively invasive.

Prohibitions against human dissection were slowly lifting, and Mondino performed his own dissections rather than following the customary procedure of entrusting the task to a menial.

An officer with the brigade told me that, while this was customary procedure, detainees were generally photographed as a group with contraband, not individually, as they were done in the pictures that accompanied my story.

"The bottom line is that a lot of prenatal tests are done to identify deformities in utero and the customary procedure is to encourage abortions," Mr. Santorum said during an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation".