Sentence examples for Customary attitude from inspiring English sources

In fact, her agency's customary attitude — fish here, fish now — ignores the strong local support across the Pacific for farsighted stewardship of imperiled oceans, a resource that belongs to future generations as much as it does to all of us.

In her version of the Sondheim show business survival anthem, "I'm Still Here," near the beginning of the show, the customary attitude of embattled determination taken by singers was replaced by amazement at the fact that she is actually alive.

Furthermore, The Times was assured that the offer was not expected by the Tammany leaders to change The Times's customary attitude toward that organization; it was made simply because they felt that it was a good idea to support a conservative Democratic paper in New York in the general interest of the party.

Due to decreased age at menarche and increasing tradition of later age at marriage, the customary attitude has been changing.

The difference seems attributable rather to customary attitudes and valuations in particular, the assumption that women's productivity is lower in all jobs and the belief that pay should be proportioned to need (women workers generally needing less than the man who has a family to support).

In these and other writings, Fell promotes a certain critical attitude toward customary ways of practising and thinking about religion.

He has the same attitude about his customary black wingtips.

Going further, we can say that various forms of treatment – punishments, rewards, prizes, etc. – are the customary way of expressing the natural responsive attitudes.

When such forms of treatment are in this way the customary and natural ways of expressing the attitudes, then those who engage in the action or manifest the quality deserve, in a derived way, to receive the treatment.

"A certain ebullience, which often overcomes me when I have an audience, prompted a less formal attitude towards the microphone than was customary," he remembered.

The degree to which customary agreements were still functioning had an important effect on attitudes toward the need for formal protection.