Sentence examples for customary policy from inspiring English sources

In September 2001, after Ms. Shabazz fell behind on her rental payments, the storage company, according to its customary policy, offered the locker's contents for sale in a blind public auction.

Mr. Buffett did not discuss why his company declined comment before The Journal's article was published, though a comment then would have violated his customary policy of remaining silent about such things.

(f) An agency may waive the notice requirements under paragraph (a) of this section and instead impose the agency's usual and customary policies or procedures for providing notification of leave.

The president's order-by-social media caught senior military officials by surprise and short-circuited the customary interagency policy process that attends such sweeping decisions.

Describing the customary SAS policy of extreme secrecy about operations and personnel as "a load of bollocks", McAleese starred in a BBC TV series called SAS – Are You Tough Enough? in 2002.

However, as is customary, any policy decisions should be accompanied by adequate and relevant information for the target population.

Here at Stanford, I feel grateful for the various opportunities to stretch beyond the customary interpretations of "policy".

In light of public opinion research, the monarch and the Council of Ministers decided to replace the speech from the throne's customary listing of policies (from each ministry in turn) with a more coherent text that grouped policy statements and their rationales and presented the information in a style that targeted a broad audience.

In lowland areas of Latin America less affected by fragmentation under liberal and land reform policies, customary indigenous tenure regimes cover extensive contiguous territories that encompass a range of habitats including forests, savannahs, rivers, lakes and rock formations.

The most likely result is that a trend that is already well established (either as explicit policy or customary practice) will continue: countries will try to restrict the immigration of unskilled workers, giving preference to workers with skills.This does help, in one way, quite apart from narrowing the rich countries' skills deficit: it eases the downward pressure on wages at the bottom.

It argues that improving the current land tenure policy demands integration of customary land law and customary authorities into the statutory system.