Sentence examples for change the custom from inspiring English sources

My goal is to educate people and try to change the custom.

110 1 In Greece Demetrius, who was tarrying in Athens, was eager to be initiated and to participate in the mysteries at Eleusis.55 Since it was a considerable time before the legally established day on which the Athenians were accustomed to celebrate the mysteries, he persuaded the people because of his benefactions to change the custom of their fathers.

An unusual outcome of the pattern of marriage with prisoners was the use of Arawak as "the language of women" in Carib society, illustrating how a vanquished people can change the customs of their conquerors.

"It's hard not to suspect that the goal of Women of the Wall is not prayer at all, but rather their urgent will to change the customs of the Western Wall at any price, while harming the masses of those who pray at the Western Wall and traditions that developed there over hundreds of years of prayer," the rabbi told The Jerusalem Post.

It even managed to convince the Russian government to change the way custom duties were calculated on furniture, switching from weight to the value of the furniture itself.

The dispute between Cablevision and The Walt Disney Co., owner of WABC in New York, was centered on ABC's effort to change the longstanding custom of cable providers' paying nothing for traditional broadcast channels.

You can change the default custom dictionary at any time.

If you succeed here, Iraq could change the habits and customs of the people in the whole area".

Mr. Monti said the lack of politicians gave the cabinet independence, but it remains to be seen whether that translates into the clout needed to change the laws and customs of a postwar welfare state built on a patronage culture that dates back centuries.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji史记), Shun exiled the tribes that opposed him to the lands beyond civilization in order to change the latter's customs.

In summary, the PCCN demonstration project was aimed to: 1) change the traditional patients' customs of freely choosing health care organizations and establish referral channels along the continuum of care, and 2) establish partnerships among the primary care clinics and hospitals to provide a continuum of health care services.