Sentence examples for abide by the custom from inspiring English sources

Jewish tradition teaches that we abide by the custom of our parents.

At the convention in Ottawa in December, he refused to abide by the custom of having a Quebecer be either the proposer or seconder of his candidacy, and instead selected an Easterner (from New Brunswick) and a Westerner to put his name in nomination.

As long as I obeyed my father and abided by the customs of my tribe, I was not troubled by the laws of man or God".

And when they were refused — refused because they were black, because much of Greensboro was racially segregated, and because Woolworth headquarters had decreed that the company policy was "to abide by local custom" — the four students continued to sit in mute protest.

Muslims are not Western Europeans, and there are many examples of cultural clashes, forced marriages, female genital mutilation and overall refusal to abide by the laws and customs of their hosts among immigrant populations in Europe and North America.

If it doesn't, Northern Ireland will be forced to abide by the EU's single-market and customs-union rules — without having a say in them.

"We abide by the international laws".

But we abide by the law.