Sentence examples for a custom that has from inspiring English sources

Having a family mausoleum or graveyard is a custom that has endured in many parts of the world.

Many Mormon men and some women spend two years abroad working as missionaries — a custom that has given many a lingering taste for kimchi or Camembert.

It is a custom that has now gone underground, as the mores of modern life have spilled over even into the distant islands of the desert.

The blue-slip rule does not have the force of law; it's simply a custom that has been honored over time.

"Why would I change a custom that has worked for generations?" asked Antonio García, 70, a Pemón hunter, as he set out one recent morning near Santa Elena de Uairén, a squalid border town rife with smuggling activity.

It is a custom that has thrived in England and has taken hold here, judging by the increase from 100 private gardens available for browsing in 1995 in New York and Connecticut to several hundred across the country today.

To decree that it shall be permissible to continue the Jewish services under the conditions of decency and decorum characteristic of a sacred custom that has been carried on for many centuries without infringement upon the religious rights of others.

In February 2001, however, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against the "non-delegation" argument, upholding a half-century of jurisprudence and custom that has allowed Congress to concern itself with broad policy and assign detailed rule-making to federal agencies.

On arrival, he would hug us gingerly, as if embraces were a foreign custom that had in all decency to be observed, and he and my father, each in his tweed jacket, would grip each other by the up-per arms in a sort of Greco-Roman standoff.

Last November, in a court appeal, Cherán acquired a degree of autonomy from the Mexican government; the town still receives federal and state money, and its people must pay taxes, but they are allowed to govern themselves under a legal framework called "uses and customs" that has been granted to some indigenous communities.

This strong version of the "migration" theory has been largely discounted by contemporary research as the Gaoshan people demonstrate a physiology, material cultures and customs that have been adapted for life at higher elevations.