Sentence examples for custom of speaking from inspiring English sources

Marshall's custom of speaking in long strings of football metaphors further reassures the legislators.

He had been, he said, a "James Byronesque Lord Byron" who helped relight the ancient custom of spoken-word poetry.

But when Phil Gramm, a former Republican senator from Texas, inferentially used the word "prostitute" to describe Mr. Ryan in court testimony, the former governor broke with the custom of not speaking while on trial to stand before the news media outside the court building and publicly defend himself.

Senators are required, by custom, to speak of one another in the third person, directing their anger and sarcasm through whichever poor freshman happens to be the presiding officer at the moment.

Some of these events have the custom to speak about the Torah between songs.

A couple of months ago, I reported a piece in Israel describing how many present and former military and intelligence chiefs were, in defiance of political custom, speaking out publicly against the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was doing all he could to press for a unilateral attack on Iran and its nuclear facilities.

"He is really helping the western wear and boot business, like his dad," former President George Bush, said Rocky Carroll, a custom boot maker here, speaking of "43" and "41," as the current and former commanders in chief have taken to calling each other.

Get immediate access to this article for just $1 a week by subscribing now....To a beachcomber from the North the race problem has no pertinence... Being a guest of the State of Florida, author "minds his manners" & does not criticize his host's custom Speaks of two small encounters with "color".

By E. B. White The New Yorker, April 7 , 1956P. 39...To a beachcomber from the North the race problem has no pertinence... Being a guest of the State of Florida, author "minds his manners" & does not criticize his host's custom Speaks of two small encounters with "color".

Sandhya Karpe, managing director of custom programs at Wharton, speaking from her hotel in Beijing, said that her clients were discerning and that internal processes to approve an engagement were often long and cumbersome.

At the airport, a reluctant customs official, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, brushed aside concerns that there had been an uptick in gold shipments out of Afghanistan.