"Someone shouted 'Attention!' and everyone came to attention," he recalled, explaining that this was a customary practice in the presence of a high-ranking official.
Moreover, each of the oil deals at issue was monitored by lawyers at every stage, and the payment of signature bonuses -- as the transactions are described by all the parties -- is, indeed, customary practice in the oil business.
It was not until Jan . 5that the immigration service, in compliance with international law, recognized the unquestionable principle of parental rights and, as is customary practice in these cases, said that the child should return to his father.
Encroachment of large-scale agricultural schemes is among the emerging issues for the loss of customary practices in the case of Afar pastoralists.
This involves "a dynamic behavioral process" in which external technologies and information interact with households' internal knowledge, resources, and customary practices in the context of health promotion.
One of the customary practices in these nine days is the avoidance of meat: it's the way we commemorate the destruction of the Temple, where daily animal sacrifices were once brought.
40 Women's concerns also imply that the customary practice in which miscarriage is rendered invisible and must be endured patiently is no longer appropriate in the contemporary British context.
Today, while Berenson refuses to discuss in detail what happened during the year she spent in Peru before her arrest, she does admit that she knew her associates were M.R.T.A. members (without knowing their real names — a customary practice in subversive groups) and willingly helped them to rent the house.
The struggle began in the 1970's, after Britain sought entry into the European Union and set as a condition the acceptance by the rest of Europe of a law that would permit the addition of vegetable fat, a customary practice in British chocolate.
And judges may develop a settled practice of doing this whether or not it is required by any enactment; it may become customary practice in certain types of cases.
'Customary practice', in my informants' usage, is not static, and combines elements of Islamic Sharia, locally understood Islamic practice, and Punjabi and Mirpuri culture.
