At the same time, this extremest of situations had about it a kind of normality, as the word "custom" suggests.
According to legend, the pomegranate contains exactly 613 seeds, the number of commandments in the Torah that Jews are instructed to perform, and an ancient custom suggests that on Rosh Hashana, the Day of Judgment, we should consume a pomegranate to remind the Creator of all the good deeds we have (we hope) done in the last year.
After last January's earthquake, patrons raised $50,000, and since then Gary has noticed a 40% increase in custom, suggesting people's heightened awareness of the island didn't vanish along with the news crews.
In the Harrods case, British Customs suggests that Mr. Manville mail his forms to the Customs office in Southhampton with an explanation, and they will review the case, as they do others received from travelers in similar circumstances.
A sampling of the records from three big-city customs stations suggests a success rate of about 50-50.
For travel books with information about travel documents, weather, tipping guidelines, and local customs, Teach suggests Frommer's, Fodor's, or Lonely Planet books.
Designers, fabricators and devotees of custom furniture suggest a number of tactics to make sure that your custom piece does not end up being a disappointment.
The test vehicle's lack of any obvious custom parts suggest that, at least at this stage, the company's emphasis is on software development first and foremost.
This is the only time Bonnet is known to have practiced this important pirate custom, and it suggests he had by then abandoned his unorthodox practice of paying regular wages to his crew.
Jeremy Corbyn has torn into Theresa May's stalling on the EU customs union, suggesting during prime minister's questions that cabinet ministers were deliberately undermining her preferred option.
In a statement to Congress in July, the F.D.A.'s associate commissioner for policy and planning, Randall W. Lutter, said the quantity of counterfeit prescription drugs intercepted by customs officials suggest that such smuggling is on the rise.
