Sentence examples for customary gift from inspiring English sources

Foreign presidents who receive him may enjoy receiving his customary gift — a replica of the sword of Bolívar.

But he was not long in showing his stature by severely punishing the Janissaries who had dared to threaten him over the delay of the customary gift of accession.

A steep decline in fares, he said, has prevented him from saving up the roughly $7,000 for an apartment, furniture, a small wedding and the customary gift of jewelry that he says he needs to marry.

She has been lobbying to change British law to allow Islamic women who divorce still to collect a customary gift from groom to bride not now recognized in Britain.

Though it looks as if an annual literacy fund-raiser sponsored by Barbara Bush will go forward in April without Enron's customary gift of $80,000, the company's collapse left a dent of about $10 million in the 2002 budgets of local nonprofit institutions.

Food is scarce, money is tight, and there will be little of the customary gift giving that usually marks the end of the fast.

In Hawaii, Vanda orchids or velvety frangipani blossoms are strung into long necklaces called leis, the customary gifts of both welcome and farewell.

He was overawed by the holiness the otherness of his God and must have thought that the customary gifts of meat, grain, and flattery were unseemly or, at the least, irrelevant.

In China, for example, this has occurred with the customary gifts of "moon cakes," exchanged during Mid-Autumn Festival, and with sticky rice cakes, typically given during Dragon Boat Festival.

In North African countries, for example, it's often customary to give gifts to tribal chiefs, said Alexandra Wrage, president of Trace, a nonprofit that helps companies comply with the FCPA.

In early 294, Narseh sent Diocletian the customary package of gifts between the empires, and Diocletian responded with an exchange of ambassadors.