Sentence examples for Lack of custom from inspiring English sources

The sandy streets are empty and the shops closed for lack of custom.

He has had no work for the past six months, for lack of custom.

The IMF, which has shed staff this year because of the lack of custom, is now working overtime (see article).

But its lack of custom means that, as in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, we never get to see the actual process of recruitment.

Up to 165 hotels closed temporarily owing to lack of custom last July and August, according to Elhamy Elzayat,head of the Egyptian tourism federation.

The professional priests, who perform rituals for laypeople in homes or at temples and sacred sites, complain of the lack of custom, and their numbers are diminishing.

A lax attitude towards enforcement and the lack of customs officers and resources have not helped.

For on top of the lack of customs officers, there are no policemen, no judges and no police stations to report the robberies or outrages one suffers.

St. Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles is a duty-free zone, and the relative lack of customs formalities makes it easier to bring in large amounts of cash, officials said.

Because of the lack of customs duties and low or nonexistent taxes, Andorra has become an important international centre of retail trade that has attracted millions of shoppers from all over Europe with its duty-free imported consumer goods, including alcoholic beverages, electronic devices, tobacco, and clothing.

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