Sentence examples for customary rule from inspiring English sources

The customary rule of thumb is that a yacht's value should not exceed the owner's annual income.

Customs can develop from a generalizable treaty provision, and a binding customary rule and a multilateral treaty provision on the same subject matter (e.g., the right to self-defense) may exist at the same time.

Presidents and other officials will be less likely to overstep if, in Posner-speak, they have to "buy" an exception to the customary rule by "paying the political price of breaking the law".

The sharing of water is carried out by a system of combs set up in every Kasria according to an ancestral customary rule.

Mencius grants that to save the life of one's drowning sister-in-law, one of course suspends the customary rule of propriety prohibiting the touching of man and woman when they are giving and receiving.

These principles essentially provide a mechanism to address international issues not already subject either to treaty provisions or to binding customary rules.

Barry, who died Sunday at the age of seventy-eight, did not play by the customary rules of modern political rhetoric.

"It doesn't appear to have been an attempted coup," a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Madrid, speaking under customary rules of anonymity.

But, as the atypical grand-jury proceedings in the aftermath of Michael Brown's death illustrate, there is a great deal to be said for prosecutors following the customary rules of their profession.

Law merchant, during the Middle Ages, the body of customary rules and principles relating to merchants and mercantile transactions and adopted by traders themselves for the purpose of regulating their dealings.

The milling of an audience is usually the signal that customary rules of courtesy toward performers and speakers are no longer applicable and that different forms of behaviour may be expected.