Sentence examples for dominant custom from inspiring English sources
In a survey 40 years ago, she noted, almost two-thirds of Indian communities reported that the local custom was for the groom to pay the bride's family, the reverse of the present dominant custom.
Despite the increasing domestication of men in this area, urinating while standing up is indeed still common practice...Someone who still practices this previously dominant custom is regularly confronted with significant disputes, particularly with female cohabitants.
But the fact that the landlord appeared to view his tenant's standing urination as a barbaric habit, and the fact that the judge referred to the now-protected position as a formerly dominant custom was telling.
These entwined administrations involved both formal institution building and the articulation of dominant cultural customs that, in turn, served also to establish boundaries of citizenship and racial difference.
The dominant burial customs involved cremation of bodies, with the ashes placed in urns that were either ceramic, or made from organic materials, such as fabric or leather.
Individuals cannot have such aims, much less such "rights," until the dominant authority of custom or hierarchical privilege has been swept away.
The population is predominantly Javanese, and Islam, influenced by Hindu and Buddhist customs, is the dominant religion.
Once in the camps, they were forbidden to speak their native language and were indoctrinated into the religion and customs of the dominant white culture.
Scholarship differs in its analysis of why, but many experts assert that the dominant masculine religions and patrilineal customs brought to Europe by invading Indo-Europeans seriously upset the state of play.
Processing times are difficult to accurately estimate in industries where custom-designed products are dominant.
In Tehran, Marrakech, Sevilla (Seville), Lahore, and Delhi, this tradition is the dominant one and, as with all parks, developed according to the climate, social custom, and religious ethos.
