Sentence examples for ancestral custom from inspiring English sources
As censor Cato aimed at preserving the mos majorum ("ancestral custom") and combating all Greek influences, which he believed were undermining older Roman standards of morality.
The fate of Julius Caesar, an eagerness to acquire political respectability, and his own esteem for ancestral custom combined to dissuade Octavian from it.
He posed as the first servant of an empire over which the Roman Senate presided, and it would appear that his claim to have accepted no office inconsistent with ancestral custom was literally true.
William S. Richardson, who as chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court for 16 years was a leading proponent of the rights of native Hawaiians, often relying on ancestral custom rather than Western common law in his decisions, died Monday in Honolulu.
Malagasy farmers embrace and perpetuate the practice not only for its practical benefits as an agricultural technique, but for its cultural associations with prosperity, health and venerated ancestral custom (fomba malagasy).
Dubbed "Mos Maiorum" (a Latin phrase referring to the "ancestral custom" of the Roman Empire) the initiative, which ran from the 13th October until yesterday, saw EU member states join forces to clamp down on illegal immigration and the organised crime that facilitates it.
He also discovered that present-day Mexican Indians preserve many ancestral customs.
Rule by an assembly of equals based on ancestral customs can make running a business unwieldy.
Many thousands more people joined them in the following days, including families seeking to revive their ancestral customs.
It's so unconcerned with political correctness and the fact that it's stepping on toes in terms of taste and ancestral customs".
It is sanctioned by Guerrero State Law 701, which recognizes the authority of indigenous communities to administer themselves, "based on their ancestral customs and traditions that have been transmitted for generations, enriched and adapted with the passage of time".
