Sentence examples for a custom that was from inspiring English sources

As late as the 1960s, even the sand in Chicago was segregated, not by law, but by a custom that was sometimes enforced by violence.

Winners of the competition are no longer offered contracts to perform with the Metropolitan Opera, a custom that was stopped in 1976.

A local minhag (minhag ha-makom) is a custom that is binding upon a specific Jewish community.

"Many of these women were third-generation British and it is just a custom that is being handed down between the ages.

They mean moving in with his parents, grandparents and siblings, a custom that is still the norm, even in prosperous families.

Another describes how a Jain woman died after a prolonged period of fasting, a custom that is now rare, but still survives today.

The passage more honored in the breach than the observance, from "Hamlet," refers to a custom that is more honorably ignored than followed — not one that is more often ignored.

Shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving, a custom that is tradition to some and puzzling to others, got a new twist this year with several stores opening as early as 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.

Qom even has its own well-known red-light district, where pious mullahs can get licences to be married just for a few hours or a day to a pretty woman in a custom that is close to abetting prostitution.Still, many young Qomsters feel suffocated and head north to breathe more freely and to look for work in Tehran.

This is a custom that is followed everywhere.

It's a custom that's been lost in Spain and I'm pushin for a comeback.