Sentence examples for custom continued from inspiring English sources

Over the years, Mr. Maher says, the custom continued.

Yet, despite their acknowledgement of Islamic hegemony, the Leonese kings, adhering to Asturian custom, continued to assert their rights as heirs to the Visigothic tradition.

After industrialization had set in, custom continued in some measure to regulate rates of pay and to protect workers who entered into individual agreements.

As the Middle Ages ended, France comprised a central core of élections, where local Estates, when they met at all, had little to do with fiscal matters, and a surrounding belt of "lands of Estates" (e.g., Languedoc, Brittany, Normandy, and Burgundy), where custom continued to allow for the administration of taxes.

But priests and seminarians made sure the custom continued.

This custom continued well into the 20th century in the practice of leaving May baskets filled with flowers and sweets and rhyming love verses at the door of one's beloved at dusk on May 1.

The custom continues, but has nearly been eclipsed by the carnival spirit that took hold in the last 50 years.

The custom continues til this day.

From cuneiform sources it is known that traditional religious practices and forms of government as well as other customs continued in Mesopotamia; there were only a few Greek centres, such as Seleucia and the island of Ikaros (modern Faylakah, near Kuwait), where the practices of the Greek polis held sway.

Religious rites and customs continue to be practiced, because of conservatism, long after the ideas and beliefs that originally inspired them may be forgotten or abandoned.

The exceptions may be traditional systems where intrinsic values (social customs) continue to provide reasons for diversity maintenance.