Sentence examples for Long-standing custom from inspiring English sources

I am always suspicious of studies that fly in the face of long-standing custom & tradition, not to mention the observation and experience of hundreds of people.

Baltimore, like many cities, has a long-standing custom of generally staying out of immigration enforcement, and Baltimore police generally avoid inquiring about suspects' or witnesses' immigration status.

By long-standing custom it shares part of its proceeds with five established agencies, or "partners" - the American Red Cross, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the Salvation Army and the United Hospital Fund.

(Remember the black kid who touched Obama's hair to see if it felt like his?) I'd like to attribute this familiarity to my relative overconsumption of the news, and to my short tenure as a junior staffer at the White House, where, by long-standing custom, Presidential photos hang on most of the walls.

"It is our long-standing custom to invite the U.S. president to the National Jamboree".

Lyttelton, who was soon appointed Governor of Jamaica, requested assistance from Dobbs, but North Carolina's militia could not be convinced to serve outside of its home province due to long-standing custom.

Given long-standing customs of subordination, the traditional disparity of power, and the typical difference in size and strength between men and women, the threat of physical harm and the differential exercise of economic and political power are sufficient to maintain male dominance unless the law intercedes to counteract these forces (Husseini 2007; Manderson 2003; Schneider 2000; Rhode 1997).

Such climate-related changes in long-standing customs and ways of living ultimately lead to stress, mental disorders and suicides.

Interviews an artist called Yoyo, who paints pictures on the roofs and sides of public buses, a long-standing Panamanian custom.

Most people contributed to funeral expenses, a long-standing local custom.

Magna Carta, it was argued, recognised and protected the liberty of individual Englishmen, made the king subject to the common law of the land, formed the origin of the trial by jury system, and acknowledged the ancient origins of Parliament: because of Magna Carta and this ancient constitution, an English monarch was unable to alter these long-standing English customs.