Sentence examples for accept as customary from inspiring English sources

The Arctic Ocean itself is governed by the law of the sea, which all nations accept as customary international law.

The arrangement, while perhaps not known to the public, was widely accepted as customary and appropriate in Dominican political and governmental circles.

Colonel Reisner is right that customary international law is formed by the actual practice of states that other states accept as lawful.

The zone was accepted as part of customary international law in the ICJ's 1985 decision in the dispute between Libya and Malta, which concerned the delimitation of the continental shelf between them.

Tip once again when you leave as customary gratuity.

He did not say whether a referendum would be held to ratify the changes, as customary.

Univariate statistics were computed as customary.

[ http://www.icj.org/dwn/database/Maastricht%20ETO%20Principles%20-%20FINAL.pdf] See article 38.1 of the Statue of the International Court of Justice which states that the primary sources of international law are international treaties and conventions, customary practices of states accepted as law and general principles of law common to most legal systems.

Against this backdrop of malnutrition levels accepted as "normal" or "structural", i.e. considered as customary for the country, alarming signs came up in increasing numbers in 2004-2005 and converged in the agricultural areas of Zinder and Maradi, along the Nigerian border.

Their families were scandalized that Sharif had proposed, and by her refusal to accept the customary payment that a groom's family offers his bride.

From the time of the Abbasid caliphate in the 8th century, the developing Sharia was accepted as the basis of law in the towns of the Muslim world, including the Arabian peninsula, and upheld by local rulers, eclipsing urf (or pre-Islamic local customary law).