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This broke the Hungarian custom of seniorate, by which the heir was the eldest brother or nephew within the extended family.

The Trend Micro report found that custom hacking jobs were more expensive though unlikely to break the bank.

"My family broke with the custom of keeping traditional flavors plain," said Juan Martín Guarracino, one of Persicco's founders.

But when Phil Gramm, a former Republican senator from Texas, inferentially used the word "prostitute" to describe Mr. Ryan in court testimony, the former governor broke with the custom of not speaking while on trial to stand before the news media outside the court building and publicly defend himself.

Sanz-Menéndez estimates that the ministry may not be able to pay for all that with the current amount indicated in the budget plan, unless it breaks with the custom of giving newly approved, multiyear research projects about 60% of their promised funding in the first year.

On the accession of Go-Daigo, the retired emperor Go-Uda broke the long-established custom and dissolved the office of retired emperor (in no chō).

The crucial feature in all these cases is that the violent act is not a spontaneous outburst of brutal energy that breaks the chains of civilised customs, but something learned, externally imposed, ritualised, part of collective symbolic substance of a community.

Ceallach, while dying, nominated (1129) Malachy as his successor, both as abbot and as archbishop, thus breaking the time-honoured Irish custom of hereditary succession.

When England met Argentina in Sapporo in the 2002 World Cup, British journalists swapped players' quotes with their South American counterparts, as is customary; this time, however, we broke the usual quid-pro-quo custom by giving them money, because back home the peso had crashed, the banks were boarded up and they were suddenly penniless.

Prussia then sought to break up the local customs unions and attach them to a general customs union, the Zollverein.

It didn't take long for American customs agents to discover that Texaco tankers were breaking the law.

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