Over the centuries, rules governing combat have been drawn together in customary practice as well as official legal documents, like the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter.
In law, in customary practice, and in cultural stereotypes, women's selfhood has been systematically subordinated, diminished, and belittled, when it has not been outright denied.
He became interested in ideas of magic found among Malays and in the customary practices and daily life of the aborigines living in the interior.
Eckhart taught that "God's ground and the soul's ground is one ground," and the way to the realization of the soul's identity with God lay less in the customary practices of the religious life than in a new state of awareness achieved through radical detachment from all created things and a breakthrough to the God beyond God.
The norms produced by institutional communication so understood (and possibly also the norms that institutions consider and tacitly endorse in their customary practices) are valid norms of the system and make up the entire content of the law.
On most ruminant farms, pasture management is guided by nutritional requirements of animals in combination with customary practices, and in general little attention is paid to parasites when the season's grazing is planned.
While the PFES Program complements other institutions at the national- and local-levels, some institutional incompatibilities exist in terms of customary practices.
In some cases, customary practices and laws that limit women's rights to land prevail over legislation that guarantees their right to land.
This involves "a dynamic behavioral process" in which external technologies and information interact with households' internal knowledge, resources, and customary practices in the context of health promotion.
Differences in religious and other customary practices are minimal between the castes.
