Sentence examples for abandon the custom from inspiring English sources
Christians, these thinkers argued, should abandon the custom of relying on Jewish informants and instead do their own computations to determine which month should be styled Nisan, setting Easter within this independently computed, Christian Nisan, which would always locate the festival after the equinox.
Woolf abandoned the custom of dressing for dinner and learned to cook, and would sometimes end a letter to the effect of "must go and put the dinner on", like some 1950s suburban housewife.
Ding and Fu both abandoned the custom of walking out to music in a show of respect for the victims of the recent China earthquake that has left over 180 dead.
Two of the urban GPs had previously attempted to establish these types of arrangements with local care homes but had abandoned the custom, concluding that it had no effect on calls from the home between scheduled visits.
He told her to escape from the village, to abandon the old customs, not to let the years waste away.
For centuries Christian missionaries fanned out across the developing world, working night and day to win heathens to the Christian path and abandon the wicked customs of their homelands.
Some schools believe the modular style suits their pupils better and may abandon the English boards to give CCEA their custom.
abandon the binding, (ii).
Let yourself abandon the rules.
