Sentence examples for A general custom from inspiring English sources

It is not fair to say that there was a general custom among coastwise carriers so to equip their tugs.

We want to make it a general custom for every surgeon to send us tissue from his cases at once just as he sends it to his own laboratory.

Prussia then sought to break up the local customs unions and attach them to a general customs union, the Zollverein.

As Bradley says, for each child, learning to speak the language "carries into his mind the ideas and sentiments of the race É and stamps them in indelibly" This child also observes and comes to participate in the practices of the society: he "grows up in an atmosphere of example and general custom" (Ethical Studies, p. 172).

Across almost three decades of travel I've often noted the general custom; I've inflicted it on myself.

At its least gracious can be cited the more general custom of giving the vendeuses ten per cent on all gowns they have sold — when and if ever the gowns are paid for.

In general, custom filters should be developed for each domain in order to conform to the information in the project archive and the searching preferences of users.

Cornelius Cossus (400 B.C ., and according to Niebuhr was then designed as a compensation to those who served with their own horses; it did not become the general custom till some time afterwards.

In general, custom made stems are used for their shape which is designed in line with the patient's hip morphology [ 23].

The evidence at the trial uniformly supported the proposition that the intentional striking of a player in the head from the rear is not an accepted part of either the playing rules or the general customs of the game of professional football.

The general customs of football do not approve the intentional punching or striking of others.