Sentence examples for custom known as from inspiring English sources

Friday night, the two families each conducted a religious custom known as a Mandap Mahurat.

He was also the first man to put on a profitable, systematic basis the theatrical custom known as papering the house.

"There is, Evelyn reflected, a custom known as Suttee; to judge by their behaviour, many seemed to think its suppression an unhealthy development".

Poor families, in a custom known as tongyangxi, or "little daughter-in-law," often married off their daughters as children to young boys in better-off families.

Presents a radio discussion of a centuries-old Albanian custom known as the gjakmarrja, or hakmarrja, where blood was avenged with blood.

If I was wielding the pole when Sister Mercedes was occupied, I could bop someone on the head across the room, a custom known as "knighting the squire".

The country is particularly associated with its traditional Oktoberfest celebrations, its carnival culture and globally influential Christmas customs known as Weihnachten.

A great deal of "The Butterfly Effect" is devoted to bespoke videos crafted for specific individual customers, known as "customs".

I have a responsibility to my custom clients to know as much as possible about antiques, rare carpets and fine art, and a lot of what we do is custom for high-end clients.

There have been other recent instances of the custom known in Hebrew as hadarat nashim, or the exclusion of women, such as the chief rabbi of the air force ordering religious soldiers to walk out of events where female soldiers sing.

As with Apple Computer's popular Dashboard feature, the idea is that it will be simple for programmers to extend the reach of Google Desktop by adding custom applications, known as live content panels.