Sentence examples for customs in which from inspiring English sources

He naturally accepts the institutions, manners and customs in which he is educated as necessities imposed upon him by Providence".

It also has parallels to more recent customs in which couples from Mexico bring their child to church for a blessing seven weeks after birth.

However, unions between affines those who were already connected through marriage were often preferred; the levirate and sorarate were common customs in which, respectively, a man married the widow of his deceased brother or a woman married the widower of her deceased sister.

Vico sees this common nature reflected in language, conceived as a store-house of customs, in which the wisdom of successive ages accumulates and is presupposed in the form of a sensus communis or "mental dictionary" by subsequent generations.

(She wore orange and incorporated elements like handfasting, a neo-pagan custom in which the couple's hands are bound together by a cord).

Perhaps the best-known of these is the avunculate, a custom in which men have an unusually close relationship with their sisters' sons, often including coresidence.

(I'd mistaken him for a girl because he wore a sarong and flowers in his hair -- he was a "fakaleiti," following a custom in which certain Tongan men are raised as women).

Parade starts 6.30pm, samesky.co.uk 25 December and 1 January The Ba is an annual custom in which hundreds of men and boys take to the streets to embark on a medieval football match.

Ng'ok does take on social content, celebrating a custom in which women braid one another's hair — an elaborate, at times painful, but intimately bonding activity — and referring to riotous student activism.

The Italians call it a passeggiata, an ages-old village custom in which residents and visitors make a relaxed evening loop around the town, allowing them to visit, if only for a moment, with their neighbors.

Shot in a resort town near Tel Aviv, it captures a weird, macho recreation custom in which men drive their sport utility vehicles up and down sand dunes on Friday afternoons.