Mr. Iijima said Mr. Koizumi had attended only one wedding party held by a supporter in his entire 30-year political career and never returned to his district after his five Cabinet appointments to accept the customary congratulations and courtesy calls from his backers, a tradition called "okuni iri".
At the time, it was customary not to make an official announcement of Cabinet appointments until the new President formally submitted the names to the Senate on the afternoon of Inauguration Day, March 4; however, The New York Times obtained the list of Wilson's appointees a day early.
It's customary for the National Academy [of Sciences] to weigh in on the appointment for the USGS director, and I know they have already got a committee in place, and are already hard at work.
However, now nine games unbeaten in all competitions, the Red Devils look well placed to make their customary mid-season surge towards the top, with doubts over Moyes' appointment slowly being dispelled.
Mrs. Clinton kept her appointment with Mr. Obama in the Oval Office, taking her customary seat on the yellow sofa as the two talked about her coming trip to the Persian Gulf, where she planned to turn up the heat on Iran over its nuclear program.
These changes brought the customary rights of lay rulers such as John over ecclesiastical appointments into question.
The union representing state troopers also protested the appointment though they had kept silent for weeks because the customary background check on Mr. Santiago had been assigned to state police investigators.
Justice James Clark McReynolds, a blatant anti-semite, refused to speak to Brandeis for three years following the latter's appointment and when Brandeis retired in 1939, did not sign the customary dedicatory letter sent to Court members on their retirement.
This was particularly true when she thought the pope was making bad appointments to Spanish benefices or in any way encroaching on the customary rights of the crown over the Spanish churches.
Mr. Marsalis assumed his customary role as master of ceremonies and featured soloist — his trumpet choruses on Jackie McLean's "Appointment in Ghana" marked the first blast of improvisation — and he wrote three of the concert's arrangements.
