Sentence examples for customarily claimed from inspiring English sources

As a politician who was partly shaped by a tradition that customarily claimed America as both the place of "Egyptian" slavery and the promise of freedom, it makes complete sense that stories of Egyptian democracy should take centre-stage in Obama's retelling of the Exodus drama.

Just beyond, within sight of the street's southern end, the purple façade of Juanalaloca (Plaza de la Puerta de Moros 4) conceals what many madrileños consider to be Madrid's finest tortilla de patatas (potato omelette) - no small achievement in this city where the prize is customarily claimed by every local's abuela (grandmother).

Customarily, politicians who claim they have done nothing wrong choose to say so in a speech or a one-on-one interview during which they can defend themselves in the softening light of staged intimacy, be it Richard Nixon's Checkers speech or the Clintons' joint interview on "60 Minutes" to challenge the accusations of Gennifer Flowers.

The lengthy score is customarily cut in performance; Bohm claimed that his cuts were approved by Strauss, and they have been frequently emulated.

She claimed that young girls on Pitcairn customarily became sexually active after age 12, a practice of underage sex that had been accepted as a Polynesian tradition since the settlement of the island in 1790.

It follows the historical traces of how women have claimed their labor, making what has been customarily seen as "merely" intimate and domestic into appreciable political acts.

This September, Morgan was playing to a customarily packed house in Dublin when an audience member sitting near an open window heard voices that, she claimed to an Irish radio station the following day, seemed to eerily prefigure the revelations that emerged on stage a few seconds later.

The curators of these museum are often on shaky ground when they claim, as they customarily do, that the materials should stay where they are, to be pored over by scholars.As Sir Roy Strong, a former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, noted in his diaries, this is the age of the "consumer museum".

Journalists customarily defend themselves from the charge of distortion by claiming their job is to report deviations from the norm of progress.

Their contracts customarily require members to buy a high percentage of products from given manufacturers to claim significant discounts.

She claims she doesn't ask anyone for a fee to park, but people customarily give her a tip.