Sentence examples for alien customs from inspiring English sources

Next, the Islamic Group targeted the tourist industry, declaring that it corrupted Egyptian society by bringing "alien customs and morals which offend Islam".

There is something inscrutable and, perversely, just a little predictable about this work, with its reliance on symbols, on alien customs and wooden clogs, on 'difference'difference

Adrift in a city of unfamiliar language and alien customs, he finds comfort among other expats and in teary phone calls home to his distressed but stoic wife.

It was apparent to the reformers that in Western society Judaism would have to divest itself of its alien customs and conform to the cultural and intellectual standards of the new "age of reason".

The persecuted minority that still practices such alien customs as reading, thinking and conversing seeks televisual asylum in Newsnight, This Week and, um, that's it.They are the only sanctuary left from the torture that is Tenants From Hell.

As in the Bradbury story "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed," in which an Earth family, resettled on Mars, slowly acquires alien customs and language, the characters in "The Abstinence Teacher" shift uneasily between two tongues: the unscripted cadences of ordinary speech and the exalted language of sin, salvation and belief.

He made the blues seem like both a native language and an alien custom, something to approach with wary curiosity.

In another Lafferty classic, "Nine Hundred Grandmothers," a Special Aspects agent discovers that the natives of the planet Proavitus never die: "It is a foolish alien custom which we see no reason to imitate". Alas, because of his name, Ceran Swicegood never quite learns the secret of life, the universe and everything.

Constitutional government cannot survive effectively in situations in which the constitution prescribes a pattern of behaviour or of conducting affairs that is alien to the customs and way of thinking of the people.

Gradually, Margaret gets used to Thornton, but his mother Hannah (Sinéad Cusack) and sister Fanny (Jo Joyner) disapprove of her, believing her haughty and alien to the customs of the North.

Next, the Islamic Group targeted the tourist industry, declaring it corrupted Egyptian society by bringing 'alien customs and morals which offend Islam'.