Sentence examples for follow a custom from inspiring English sources

Mr. Calderón, who has a wife who has dabbled in politics and three young children, was long expected to leave Mexico, either because of safety considerations or to follow a custom of departing Mexican presidents, who generally do not stay.

We follow a custom of formulating various statements of distribution theory in terms of the properties of r.v.'s, even when such results pertain only to their distributions.

For example, most Malay women follow a custom in their dressing that covers most of their skin.

The area was heavily booby-trapped, and the men of Task Force Barker — the Colonel followed a custom by naming the unit after himself — suffered as a result.

Following a custom she maintained throughout her widowhood, Victoria spent the Christmas of 1900 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

And that is why families too poor to afford a minghun bride also follow a similar custom in some villages: They make a figure of straw and bury it beside a dead son as the spouse he never had.

Some Paris businesses follow a European custom of closing up for several weeks in August.

With regard to the name with which he signed his works, the Japanese artist followed a bewildering custom: he adopted and discarded names at will.

By creating combustion every time fire touches cotton, God follows a certain custom ('âda).

Following a Jewish custom, Davis' first name is actually Isaac (he was named after one of his mother's grandfathers), and his middle name is Benjamin (after her other grandfather).

In general, the production of a DNA array is as follows: A CombiMatrix custom array chip was placed in the chamber of a DNA synthesizer programmed to run standard cyanoethyl phosphoramidite DNA synthesis.