Sentence examples for customs- from inspiring English sources

Not only do they adopt local customs and costumes, but they also get accepted as friends and neighbours," he said.

"A lifestyle depends on the customs in a given country," Capello said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Leading human rights lawyer and advocate Julian Burnside QC has told the ABC that the Australian government's holding of 153 asylum seekers on a customs boat at sea may amount to piracy.

Despite Deodato's avowed support for indigenous peoples (he shot the movie on the border between Colombia and Brazil), none are credited, and there's little evidence of interest in their actual tribal customs.

Belarus is a charter member of a Russia-led customs union, which the Kremlin hopes to develop into an alternative EU for former Soviet states.

While the customs officers were getting to grips with their discovery, Gurlitt, 80, reportedly remained in his darkened bedroom without protesting.

Being unable to deny a story that he had told colleagues he had scheduled a public event in Melbourne in order to justify claiming travel entitlements for a party fundraiser, Tony Abbott moved to change "the story" on Wednesday to specific actions his government was taking to increase counter-terrorism customs capacity at airports.

"They should not be using peacetime customs methodology," he said, adding that material was piling up at Kathmandu airport instead of being ferried out to victims.

HM Revenue & Customs has been criticised by MPs for costing callers £136m a year by not answering telephone inquiries, despite spending £900m on customer service.

Britain's most senior auditor, who set up a judge-led review into the "sweetheart" multimillion-pound tax deals between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and corporations, appeared to undermine the process before it began by telling the country's most senior tax official that the inquiry would find "nothing of substance".

Even the government has made loud noises about curbing tax avoidance, giving £900m to Revenue & Customs to fight it.