Sentence examples for customary arrangements from inspiring English sources

Everywhere, attempts at reconciling widely divergent legal and customary arrangements demonstrated a desire for legal uniformity; the view that each group should live by its own law no longer served the needs of society.

The previous benchmark royalty rate for electronic books, set by the Random House division of Bertelsmann, amounts to about 25percentt of the list price under customary arrangements with retailers.

Time Warner used a different formula -- a quarter of the publisher's revenue, which comes out to about 12.5percentt of the retail price in the customary arrangements with booksellers.

Both residents and CR officials felt that the CR lacked the authority to infringe upon customary arrangements.

In addition to the functioning of customary arrangements, the nature of social relations among user groups also influenced the perceived need for protection of corridors.

In some cases, the precedence of customary arrangements protected mobility by restricting the ability of CR officials to alter existing land use agreements; however, since land use planning and allocation for cultivation take place at the CR level, its diminished role in regulating corridors could also indirectly promote agricultural encroachment.

Instead, it flipped the customary arrangement and put the plaza on the inside.

Mr. Sohmer has been offered a deal to produce movies at Columbia, a customary arrangement when new brooms enter Hollywood studios.

On a visit last week, Mr. Trump decided that the top floor, a 17-foot-high aerie with vaulted ceilings and arched windows, ought to be the living room, even though this would reverse the customary arrangement of bedrooms above, living room below.

The European colonists, for the most part, had preferred to leave customary land arrangements alone, except in areas where they themselves wanted to live or establish plantations.

Franklin, Benjamin's older brother, refused to adhere to customary licensing arrangements and constantly attacked the ruling powers of New England, thereby achieving both editorial independence and commercial success.