Sentence examples for ancestral customs from inspiring English sources

Re-emergence of trichinellosis in this region has deep roots in the population's ancestral customs and education.

Consequently, by abandoning these ancestral customs, a negative impact on the resilience capacity of these rural communities might be occurring.

Rule by an assembly of equals based on ancestral customs can make running a business unwieldy.

He also discovered that present-day Mexican Indians preserve many ancestral customs.

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".

On the other hand he allowed every one to retain his family and clan and religious rites according to ancestral custom.

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.

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.

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.