Sentence examples for popular custom from inspiring English sources
A popular custom was to undergo certain physically exhausting or painful exercises.
The tapas are taken with sherry, and it is a popular custom to go on a chateo, or tour of bars, consuming large quantities of tapas and sherry at each bar.
The Lucia candlelights are a relatively recent but very popular custom performed for St . Lucias Day on the morning of December 13, at almost the darkest time of year; the ceremony features a "Light Queen," who, wearing a white gown and a crown of lighted candles, represents the returning sun.
It is important to employ whatever means possible to get a sunny day in Ireland and it appeared that this popular custom of putting a statue of Jesus under a bush the night before a wedding had taken care of the weather nicely.
Second, Austin's work should be seen against a background where most English judges and commentators saw common-law reasoning (the incremental creation or modification of law through judicial resolution of particular disputes) as supreme, as declaring existing law, as discovering the requirements of "Reason," as the immemorial wisdom of popular "custom".
So -- following the popular custom of that time -- Mrs. Winchester reached out to a spiritualist.
"A few years ago there were custom bikes and choppers, but there were just a few in every town," says the Kustomfest organiser, Lulut Wahyudi, a tattooed Yogyakartan who runs one of Indonesia's most popular custom-bike shops.
He collected information not only about popular stories but also about popular customs.
His interests encompassed history and mythology, popular customs, animal life, and landscape.
"We decided to resort to popular customs, in order for this building not to see bloodshed any more," Myktybek Abdyldayev, a member of Parliament, said after the sacrificed.
Responding to popular tastes, the oral narrative known as p'ansori was transformed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries from a narrative performance that incorporated shamanistic chants into a vehicle for treating popular customs and everyday life.
