Sentence examples for how customary from inspiring English sources

Such example-setting is a slow process, says Mr Bellinger, but "this is how customary international law is made .Mr Obama had several aims, says Benjamin Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser who wrote the president's speech.

After describing why and how customary property practices are central to the economic viability of any property system, the Note gives a brief overview of Ghana's customary and statutory land law.

The project could help children and young people monitor how customary law governing children and women's rights in South Sudan is developed and implemented.

After the customary "how does it feel to win?" questions the reporter asks whether she would prefer to be in a racially integrated event.

He sped off from Blidworth under police escort in the back of his Prime Ministerial Jaguar and running from the car – with the customary "how're you doing" to the station staff – made the train.

Thou hast heard, I suppose, of my confinement; for this I pray thee, since I know not how, offer the customary sacrifice on the tenth day after birth, for I am a novice herein, never having had a child before.

By D. B. Dreiman and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, December 22 , 1951P. 17 A seasoned customer walked into the Rockefeller Center branch of the Hanover Safe Deposit Company the other morning, and offered the customary "How are you today?" by the armed guard, eschewed the customary "Fine" in favor of a purely arbitrary "Terrible".

The question remains whether and how long the customary annual migrations of the Kurdish clans can carry on into the future, and how these might be affected by EC policies if Turkey joins the European Union.

When I walked out of my house this morning, my neighbor greeted me with a customary, "How's it going?" The proper answer should have been the typical, "Fine, thanks, and you?" However, I inadvertently blurted out "Surviving".

Rather, I hope to demonstrate how elements of customary practice may be challenged and implicitly or explicitly renegotiated as the social context in which it is enacted changes.

Developing an 'end game' for when the clinic should be closed and how to provide customary community health care for evacuees was critical.