Sentence examples for by customary from inspiring English sources

She says diplomatic asylum is regulated by customary law.

However, its use is regulated even by customary international law.

Diplomatic asylum is regulated by customary law and there are a number of treaties.

The hundred had a court in which private disputes and criminal matters were settled by customary law.

"Before this was passed family issues were decided by customary law, so this is a big improvement".

Some husbands, it turns out, take another wife if their first child is a girl (polygamy is legal in northern Nigeria and recognised by customary law elsewhere).

"Fellas, The Lady had another great day yesterday," he told passers-by, his customary smock pinned with the previous day's sheets and the impressive number of winners boldly highlighted in black ink.

Instead, the women blocking the Belgians' by-now-customary path to a Grand Slam singles final were Fabiola Zuluaga of Colombia and Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, neither of whom had reached this phase of a major event before.

It attempted to demonstrate the existence and attributes of God by an appeal to reason alone rather than by the customary appeal to authorities favoured by earlier medieval thinkers.

In the territory of Ourolabo III, a larger grazing area was officially demarcated and recognized by the population as hurum (an area legally assigned for animal production by the administration or by the customary authorities).

When guns began to replace the traditional weapon of spears during the first civil war in Sudan, some Nuer were no longer confident that death caused by bullet wounds was sufficiently purified by the customary rituals alone.