Sentence examples for customary basis from inspiring English sources

The village developed a Land and Forest Allocation plan in the mid 1990s, which not only distinguished forest and non-forest boundaries, and defined management rules, but also recognized farmers' access to upland swidden and fallow on a customary basis though limiting farmers to three or four plots.

…cities on the plain at Roncaglia to define the royal regalia (rights) on the basis of customary law.

Having humiliated Milan, which had attempted to oppose him, he met with the cities on the plain at Roncaglia to define the royal regalia (rights) on the basis of customary law.

which therefore excludes customary law as a basis for, or aggravation of, punishment". I've tried the German Constitutional Court's website but it's difficult to navigate without dates and dates only from 1997.

"Individuals who commit crimes against humanity in the DPRK may be held responsible on the basis of customary international law, even though the state is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and has no provisions against crimes against humanity in its domestic criminal law," Darusman wrote.

The author's institution (ARUP Laboratories) provided contracted pathology services for the study sponsor, on a usual and customary fee-for-service basis.

Somali society has functioned for centuries without a state, on the basis of kinship, customary law and Islam.

One counsellor questioned the feasibility of exclusive breastfeeding on the basis of the customary way that childcare is organised in Chagga communities.

It is customary to assume on an intuitive basis that, corresponding to every line segment and every unit length, there exists a number (called a positive real number) that represents the length of the line segment.

Some customary doctrines arguably have no particular basis in religious texts, although they are treated as though they do (e.g., when life begins).

But, because China has ratified UNCLOS and the U.S. respects it as customary international law, there is a basis for serious direct negotiation over clarification of the ambiguous nine-dashed line and the preservation of freedom of the seas.