Sentence examples for in local custom from inspiring English sources

Child marriage is deeply rooted in local custom here, and even enshrined in an old tribal expression: "Give me a girl of 8, and I can give you a guarantee" for a good marriage.

By about 2800 bc a single-grave culture emerged, but whether this shift indicates a change in local custom or another group moving into the area is not clear.

Judaism, he noted, "was embedded in local custom but also found ways to convince people to abandon that custom".

Among other things, these partnerships can bring capital, expertise in local customs, and credibility.

Images taken in desert communities, on the other hand, often reflected an ethnographic interest in local customs and clothes.

The Cuban connection also can be seen in the "Indian fiesta" that is held every September and in local customs.

But they stress that Special Operations forces receive extensive training in local customs, to balance the need to carry out military operations effectively with respecting religious sensitivies.

The international spinoffs straddle a bizarre cultural divide, blending fidelity to the official Bravo prototype with idiomatic riffs that weave in local customs and cultural allusions.

As a realist filmmaker, Edward Burns knows that an intimate knowledge of the old neighborhood can't be acquired from a crash course in local customs; you have to have grown up there.

Deeply enmeshed, beyond all expectation, in local customs — including the formalized rites of courtship — Sean finds that tradition reaches all the way into the conjugal bed, as the second half of the movie pivots on the consummation of the marriage and the violent battle for family honor on which it depends.

Deeply enmeshed, beyond all expectation, in local customs — including the friendly rivalries of priest and minister and the formalized rites of courtship — Sean finds that tradition reaches all the way into the conjugal bed, as the second half of the movie pivots on the consummation of the marriage and the violent battle for family honor on which it depends.