The phrase 'custom by' is not correct and should not be used in written English.
If you are trying to say something like "according to custom," you should use that phrase instead. For example: We followed the customs by holding the ceremony outdoors in the garden.
Understanding that sales is NOT about extracting money from an unwilling customer but rather about earning your clients' trust and willing custom by providing valuable solutions to their problems was a huge breakthrough for me.
The levirate, a custom by which a widow marries her deceased husband's brother, was fairly common.
Reform and Conservative Judaism have modified the custom by allowing women to complete a minyan.
Here and throughout his career he flouted military custom by forbidding his men to pillage.
Jan . 20 , 1953Dwight D. Eisenhower Broke with custom by reciting his own improvised prayer instead of kissing the Bible.
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Contemporary Jews sometimes reflect this custom by turning their pockets inside out and brushing small particles into the water.
Ahead of tonight's State of the Union Address, the White House has followed custom by leaking tidbits from the speech.
Gin chafes under these restrictions, defying Islamic custom by wandering a market town with a bare-armed lady friend.
His early years would have been dominated, according to Elizabethan custom, by his mother: fathers were more or less absent from their young children's lives.
