Sentence examples for foreign custom from inspiring English sources

Burial was the norm; cremation a peculiar foreign custom.

On arrival, he would hug us gingerly, as if embraces were a foreign custom that had in all decency to be observed, and he and my father, each in his tweed jacket, would grip each other by the up-per arms in a sort of Greco-Roman standoff.

Foreign customs and prejudices are slowly being dispelled.

Previously, Ukraine had insisted that its constitution forbade foreign customs officers from operating on its territory.

These are adventure stories, full of distant locales, myriad plot twists and details of foreign customs.

It was clearly part of the new China, galloping into the future, assimilating some strange foreign customs.

How to behave Omanis show great tolerance towards foreign customs, but there are strict mores concerning their own.

And yet, he can't help his own ignorance, not so much of foreign customs but of the nature of life in general.

Ahaz introduced a new Aramaean-style altar in the Temple of Jerusalem and adopted other foreign customs that are counted against him in the Book of Kings.

There is a disgust with liberal values, a frustration with foreign customs, but it is all hedged in an affectionate language more reminiscent of Michael Palin than Kingsley Amis.

Japan, abruptly introduced to foreign customs and culture after the mid-19th century, raced to remake itself as a modern nation, which included adapting Western modes of representation.