Sentence examples for custom going back from inspiring English sources

A widespread custom going back into early human history, cannibalism has been found among peoples on most continents.

(The key was presented at the Pink Elephant club in Chelsea, a municipal custom going back only to Thursday night).

To honor Mr. Domino's fund-raising efforts on behalf of the struggling musicians of New Orleans, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presented him with a key to New York City on Thursday night, following a municipal custom going back 305 years.

The custom goes back about 20 years and gums up the taxi works every day.

In Japan, where the custom goes back at least to the 19th century, izakayas — marked by glowing red lanterns and long sake lists — are where co-workers go to celebrate a promotion, where young people meet to fill up before clubbing or karaoke, where families gather for an inexpensive weekend treat.

The tradition goes back, probably, to the Roman custom of putting coins on the face of corps before a burial to pay Charon the ferry fare across the Styx Hades.

Suppose that in the U.S., whites have enjoyed superior social status, enforced by law and social custom, for decades, going back to times in which blacks were enslaved.

"Joining Russia's customs union is like going back to the USSR.

"Once I had a custom suit, it was really hard going back to the rack," said Hahn, who writes an eponymous blog about affordable men's style.

And yet, so far, Mr. Obama's greatest online innovation as president has been to upload a lot of video (like clips of his delivering the weekly radio address, a custom that goes back to Ronald Reagan), as if the iPad were mostly just a television without the knobs.

The custom of strewing flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers has innumerable founders, going back perhaps beyond the horizon of recorded history, perhaps as far as war itself.