Sentence examples for Prevailing custom from inspiring English sources

The lords also decided, in accordance with prevailing custom, how the farmwork should be organized.

In 1852 Zeng Guofan's mother died, and, in accordance with prevailing custom, he asked permission to observe the three-year mourning period at home.

The prevailing custom in the New York courts is for sign language interpreters to work in tandem: one translates the rapid-fire arguments of courtroom life, while the other gets to rest weary hands.

Sixty years ago, in 1892, "The Morning," a half-penny daily, started under American influence, opened with news on the front page; this was criticised as "un-English" and the paper soon reverted to the prevailing custom.

As per prevailing custom, he had several wives in addition to Mandodari.

By most prevailing custom, anytime someone lights off a nuke that large on the downtown waterfront, one can assume that the surrounding city has been pretty much destroyed.

Only when the goods are moved to consumers within the country in which the zone is located do they become subject to the prevailing customs duties.

Although carbohydrates may compose as much as 80 percent of the total caloric intake in the human diet, for a given diet, the proportion of starch to total carbohydrate is quite variable, depending upon the prevailing customs.

Aside from their being founded by pairs, all were built on fresh ideas that shook the prevailing customs.

And since some of those locally prevailing customs may require helping others, some of the ultimate desires produced by that psychological mechanism might well be psychologically altruistic.

To deal with this problem, Sripada argues, natural selection may well have led to the evolution of a psychological mechanism that generates ultimate desires to adhere to locally prevailing customs or practices.