Sentence examples for hallowed custom from inspiring English sources

Tribal leaders, sheikhs, in protecting their tribes' hallowed custom (sunnah), had a spiritual dimension.

The old and hallowed tradition of the poetic feud.

But, in the early nineteen-hundreds, a Buffalo company introduced the idea of short breaks in the workday, and by mid-century it had become a hallowed office custom.

The Sabbath and festivals are bound to the Jewish calendar, reoccur at fixed intervals, and are celebrated at home and in the synagogue according to ritual set forth in Jewish law and hallowed by Jewish custom.

This year, the new film was jeered to the rafters at the Cannes Film Festival, although the energetic snagging of attention is as hallowed a Cannes custom as the hiking of prices in the local seafood joints.

To Meccans who believed that what went on in their town and at their shrine was hallowed by tribal custom, sunnah, Muhammad replied that their activities in fact were a corrupt form of a practice that had a very long history with the God of whom he spoke.

"... hallowed be thy name" -- Hallowed, meaning sacred.

The process has a hallowed tradition.

Robert Irvine: Padding the resume may be a hallowed tradition.

We explain this away, by saying that "I'm more open to God in the beauty of nature" or "the veil between earth and heaven is somehow thinner here", and so the custom of pilgrimage grows up: places become hallowed by the recognition and prayers of others: it is possible to know God better in this particular place, and we divide the world into holy and profane.

The visit is legendary in Islamic histories, and Makiya does a masterly job of bringing it to life: "Then he removed his sandals, a custom of both the followers of Muhammad and Moses, signifying that they make no claim to the hallowed ground upon which they are about to walk.