Sentence examples for a customary gesture from inspiring English sources

His great-grandson, Boleslaus the Bold (r. 1058 1079), hit the Golden Gate with a sword in 1069, which would indicate that it was a customary gesture of gaining control over a city.

For more than a year, both Republicans and Democrats have pushed the billionaire real estate magnate to back up his boasts about business acumen and charitable giving by publicly disclosing federal and state tax filings, a customary gesture of transparency for presidential aspirants and one his rivals were confident could offer political ammunition.

"Respectfully, I will not shake the hand of a slaver," she says, withholding the customary gesture of condolence.

It is the customary gesture of endearment from Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European commission.

In 1951, at twenty-three, she left Australia for London, the customary gesture, at that time, of discovery and expansion.

But Mostel insisted that Tevye, like the Orthodox Jews with whom the actor had grown up, would never neglect to make the customary gesture of devotion that acknowledges the case of sacred parchment affixed to doorways of Jewish homes.

Everybody's familiar with the custom, but I don't think I've ever seen the customary gesture made.

Group A: customary treatment.

But because they are so alien to his style, concertos challenge Mr. Glass to look beyond his customary gestures, and in recent years he has poured some of his best music into them.

Before training began on Monday, a now customary goodwill gesture saw England's squad and Hodgson standing behind a banner reading "Obrigado Brasil pela recepcao calorosa" - which translates as "Thank you Brazil for your warm welcome".

He did it with a customary flourish.