Sentence examples for custom for a from inspiring English sources

Ms. Stoll disputed the notion that Mr. Pataki had ended negotiations with Mr. Bruno and Mr. Silver, though the governor held a news conference on April 14 to say it was impossible to continue meaningful negotiations with the leaders and has not summoned them to his office, as is his custom, for a meeting since then.

Blackpool began as is custom for a relegation-threatened side on home soil but their commitment to attack continues to be undermined by a porous defence and, once Fábregas found his range with the lofted chip over the top to Van Persie, Arsenal assumed complete control.

Because it is held that every man must have at least one male heir, it is the custom for a man's kin, should he die unmarried, to marry a wife to his name and beget children by her, a custom known as "ghost marriage".

Contrary to the custom for a tsar, Peter did not ride at the head of the procession, but instead allowed it to be led by 18 horsemen leading carriages carrying Zotov and the war hero Fedor Golovin.

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During the last quarter of the 20th century, it became an increasingly common custom for an encyclopaedia to incorporate an atlas and a gazetteer, often in the last volume.

Why, she asked, would they break that custom for an independent Scotland which, by then, would be an independent country?

The other English bishops present at Reims Hilary of Chichester and Josceline de Bohon —refused to help with the consecration, claiming it was contrary to custom for an English bishop to be consecrated outside of England.

It has been the custom for about a century for circusses to allow journalists an elephant ride in return for an avalanche of publicity.

We couldn't move away from customs for a while.

Mr. Tuli said it was common for the touchscreens from Montreal and other components from China to be held up by Indian customs for a month or longer.