The 'dark hand' in question manifested itself on the TV screens in the players' hotel rooms, where the customary welcome messages awaiting returning guests were replaced with unpleasant threats by enterprising hackers.
The mayor has certainly thrown himself into the recording of the message with his customary gusto, but I fear we could be standing atop a slippery slope.
Mr. Brotherton, the consultant, wrote in an e-mail message that it was customary now for professionals to lay BlackBerrys or iPhones on a conference table before a meeting — like gunfighters placing their Colt revolvers on the card tables in a saloon.
And then, in the summer of 2002, he put together a 9/11-commemoration ceremony downtown, on the occasion of the Japanese midsummer memorial celebration called obon, which concluded with the release into the Hudson River of a hundred and eight floating rice-paper lanterns, not with the names of the dead on them, as is customary in Japan, but with various messages for peace.
In keeping with the spiritual message, Mr. Beck omitted his customary attacks on President Obama and Congressional Democrats, who he has implied, more than once, are socialists (or worse) in disguise.
Two days after the Jets lost their top two quarterbacks to shoulder injuries in the span of seven plays in a Sept. 25 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Edwards placed his customary weekly call to Dungy and left a message.
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"These remarks are in the nature of exchanges of congratulatory messages, and such effusive remarks are customary," sad Lalit Mansingh, a former Indian ambassador to Washington.
But he declined again on Friday to disclose more than those two years, a refusal that has drawn attacks from Democrats — who argue he must be hiding something — and criticism from many Republicans who fear his unwillingness to adhere to a more detailed and customary tax disclosure is distracting from the Romney campaign's message.
Rather than respond, Lincoln essentially ignored Taney, instead choosing to defend his actions in a July 4 message to Congress that lacked the new president's customary facility with the written word.
