Her distinctive custom cakes decorated with gum-paste lilies and roses that look fresh from the garden cost as much as $5,000.
Beyond its repute as a so-called death car, Mix's Cord has distinctive custom features, including an external-mount spare tire.
They were all treated like rock stars at a red-carpet event replete with limousines, paparazzi, television camera crews, tuxedos, gowns, and their own distinctive custom award, called a Bammy.
The late Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau dreamed of a Canada in which distinctive customs and identities could live side by side in harmony.
Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
After pumping $58 billion into staging this mega-event, which is expected to attract more than 70 million visitors over the next six months, city authorities started a campaign to suppress one of Shanghai's most distinctive customs: wearing pajamas in public.
And third, some people (including Muslims and other minority religions) look to them as protectors of the right of faith in general to exist, follow distinctive customs and enjoy respect.
Sinic culture seeped deeply into society, but it shaped the aristocracy and mandarinal families more than it did the peasantry, which preserved distinctive customs, beliefs, vocabulary, lifeways, and gender relations.
"It has a comprehensive belief system, holy places, distinctive customs...and it displaces other religions".It does not take a sociological genius to see that the cult of the North Korean state's founder, Kim Il Sung, and of his son and successor Kim Jong Il, who ruled from 1994 to 2011, shares many features with established creeds.
As the region's transportation hub, Naha connects travelers with other parts of Okinawa, Japan and Asia; consequently, Okinawan's have grown accustomed to openly sharing their distinctive customs with visitors from all over the world - right down to their very own dialect, Uchinaguchi.
With their different physical appearance, darker skin, distinctive customs and lower level of development, the Han saw them as the Other, as "barbarians".
