Sentence examples for A widespread custom from inspiring English sources

A widespread custom going back into early human history, cannibalism has been found among peoples on most continents.

A widespread custom of these women was to yawn repeatedly during healing rituals.

It is a widespread custom to start with a piece of apple dipped in honey while a prayer is said asking God for a sweet year.

"The pleadings suggest a widespread custom or failure to train," wrote Judge Berman, who added that he was not yet ruling on the truth of the plaintiffs' allegations.

These objects are all connected with fertility; the mixing of all manner of magical things with seeds to make them sprout better is a widespread custom.

In a ruling in January allowing the case to go forward, Judge Berman wrote, "The pleadings suggest a widespread custom or failure to train".

Such treatments – part of a widespread tradition of "medicinal cannibalism" using flesh, fat, blood and bone – were so popular that come the 18th century, there were customs duties on skulls imported from the battlefields of Ireland.

A common and widespread custom is the depositing of votive offerings, dedicated to certain saints, at holy places temples, churches, shrines, or chapels where the supplicant can be certain of their direct presence and aid.

The biblical practice of driving the scapegoat from the community, described in Leviticus 16, gave a name to this widespread custom, which was said by the French intellectual René Girard to explain the basis of all human societies.

Handshaking, for example, is a widespread Turkish custom, and most women follow it.

But the byline had been established and would eventually become a widespread newspaper custom.