As a single mom without a lot of extended family nearby -- and therefore hardly any fixed traditions or planned events that my kids and I can blindly participate in -- it's a lot of pressure to not only plan the festivities, but invent tradition out of thin air that will define my children's upbringing and establish customs for generations to come.
For centuries children had been dressed as miniature adults, but in the 1770s there was a marked divergence from this established custom.
Even today, the existence of a treaty among only a select group of nations can be invoked in international forums as evidence of an established custom — and nonparticipating countries can come to be bound by treaties that they themselves never signed.
Once again we see that mucking about with established custom ain't always a great idea.
But this activism — running schools and prisons, overturning referendums, riding roughshod over established custom or law — has warped our politics, most notably with the abortion issue.
With clinical balance and congruent patella tracking established, custom trial patellar components that were thicker than the standard trial by 2-mm increments (2-8 mm) were sequentially placed and trialed.
When three babies sued to prevent the use of firecrackers to celebrate India's Diwali festival, because the crackers create enormous clouds of smoke, the courts declined to intervene, referring to well established custom.
Working for an established custom harvesting company will allow you to build relationships with farmers and let them see that you are reliable and dependable.
Large-scale ivory shipments originating from Africa have almost exclusively been seized in containers at major ports in Asia, where there is an established customs inspection systems.
With nations still navigating how to interact on the Web and arguments persisting about whether international law applies to the Internet, there are few established customs of cyberbehavior, legal or implicit.
