Sentence examples for longstanding customs from inspiring English sources

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Some shrines have responded to the relentless criticism from their opponents by changing longstanding customs, cutting back on the beautiful devotional music for which Sufism is famous and enforcing gender segregation.

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The Red Cross, by longstanding custom, does not discuss the nature of wartime killings.

First, as a matter of religious teaching and longstanding custom, a gemach makes no profit on its loans.

In keeping with longstanding custom, no one from the William Gottlieb Management Company responded to many interview requests made for this article.

He did away with the longstanding custom of addressing Bertelsmann executives as "Herr Doctor" in deference to their business degrees.

Still, the attacks fueled fears that the security situation in Afghanistan was weakening and that the longstanding custom of allowing safe passage to aid workers was breaking down.

Another fan who joined him onstage was handed a guitar and, according to longstanding custom, entrusted with the three-chord churn of "Knowledge".

Critics of the practice say it is cruel as birds are killed before they can breed, but supporters defend it as a longstanding custom.

They say that at mandatory events, the longstanding custom has been to offer a nonsectarian prayer, for example, citing God, rather than Christ.

The dispute between Cablevision and The Walt Disney Co., owner of WABC in New York, was centered on ABC's effort to change the longstanding custom of cable providers' paying nothing for traditional broadcast channels.

Now it appears they have also breached the longstanding custom of providing safe passage to aid workers, who have often been free to work in both government and insurgent-dominated areas.

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