The monopoly of celibate males, after all, is a long-established custom, but it is not core Catholic doctrine.
Elsewhere, regulations, long-established custom, or a combination of both have limited the extent to which commercial banks have taken part in the provision of nonbank financial services.
On the accession of Go-Daigo, the retired emperor Go-Uda broke the long-established custom and dissolved the office of retired emperor (in no chō).
The long-established custom is to wait a few hours, at most, after an official game is stopped by rain, then declare it over if the weather has not relented.
In accordance with long-established custom, they can either be found posing rock band-like with an attitude of studied cool, or embroiled in some kind of wacky tableau.
Recent history is no guide, except in the ways of Washington hypocrisy.In a column yesterday, Eugene Robinson wrote that Dick Cheney was ignoring the "long-established custom" of not attacking the new president and his policies.
There had never been any one law to that effect, but by Diocletian's time the emperor had at his command a body of long-established custom and numerous imperial decisions that served just as well.
And that's why I'm most impressed with the Liberty student group, part of a demographic with whom I never anticipated finding common ground: their objections break with a long-established custom in which the religious right claims to have the moral high ground but is really using religion to sell the world a very rigid strain of righteousness.
LONDON -- The British Parliament is set to return to work in its usual baroque manner on Tuesday, when Queen Elizabeth puts on a gown and a crown and, following long-established custom, reads the new government's legislative program aloud in a voice bleached dry of intonation.
