Sentence examples for custom rather than from inspiring English sources

Custom, rather than written contracts, prevailed.

The scope of the chemical industry is in part shaped by custom rather than by logic.

Dress codes do exist in France as elsewhere, but their enforcement is through social custom rather than law.

The autumn 1955 tour took in Houston, Texas, where segregation was enforced by custom rather than law.

It is true at the same time that the history behind this heritage is largely forgotten, that it persists as custom rather than as memory.

Recent moves by the London Stock Exchange designed to see off encroaching rivals may cost the LSE custom rather than increase it.

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Her use of found objects, in particular, references a broader art history and conveys rich associations beyond the art world, into history, literature and social customs, rather than just being art about art".

Before 1940, marriage in Scotland was based on Celtic customs, rather than Catholic religious customs.

In Mombasa, I extended my stay for an extra week to oversee the normal and tedious process of releasing a car through customs rather than "ongearing vizuri" and paying the unofficial "expedite fee" requested.

The contemporary British political philosopher Martin Cohen has offered the more historically telling example of Biblical injunctions in favour of torture and slavery as evidence of how religious injunctions follow political and social customs, rather than vice versa, but also noted that the same tendency seems to be true of supposedly dispassionate and objective philosophers.