Sentence examples for customs and needs from inspiring English sources

Their broad cultural awareness helps them tune in to local customs and needs.

The predicament is familiar: the foreign interloper, whether a journalist, a general, or a colonial administrator, arrives ignorant of the local languages and customs, and needs someone who can serve as interpreter and guide.

I agree that academies have yet to prove themselves, as is true of free schools, but they go with the grain of human nature, which is for heads, parents and teachers, as well as students, to run the schools in their own way, peculiar to local traditions, customs and needs.

The apostolic letter raised challenges as wide-ranging as combating abortion and the death penalty, amending the role of the papacy to improve relations with other churches, adapting Roman Catholic traditions to the customs and needs of different nations and cultures, and reducing the heavy concentration of power inside the Vatican.

With the rapidly increasing number of health care professionals seeking international research experience, comes an urgent need for enhanced capacity of host country institutional review boards (IRB) to review research proposals and ensure research activities are both ethical and relevant to the host country customs and needs.

These groups help ensure that lifesaving immunizations and AIDS education reach remote villages in local languages, cost-efficiently and according to local customs and needs.

The salvor, for his part, has a maritime lien on the salved property (in an amount determined by national statute or juridical custom) and need not return the property to the owner until his claim is satisfied or until security to meet an award is given.

It should be from the bottom-up, stemming from cultural customs and local needs.

When planning and implementing a clinical study in a resource-limited setting, additional factors must be taken into account, including local customs and program needs, language and socio-cultural barriers, high background rates of malnutrition and endemic diseases, extreme poverty, lack of personnel, and limited infrastructure.

Indigenous people with cancer have language, customs and specific needs that are not accommodated within the standard SCNS-SF34.

"Revolution isn't just about the political movement on the streets," he said, "but how things are at home — and how customs and attitudes need to be shaken up.