As per prevailing custom, he had several wives in addition to Mandodari.
In 1852 Zeng Guofan's mother died, and, in accordance with prevailing custom, he asked permission to observe the three-year mourning period at home.
The lords also decided, in accordance with prevailing custom, how the farmwork should be organized.
In addition, the prevailing custom requiring widows (who may have already been HIV-positive) to marry their husband's brother or closest kinsman may have further accelerated the spread of the infection [ 25].
Throughout their marriage, George I and Olga were a close-knit couple, and contrary to the prevailing custom spent much time with their children, who grew up in a warm family atmosphere.
Given the variability of socio-demographic and cultural contexts, differentials in perception of vulnerability or risk for newborns, and prevailing customs, traditions and beliefs within communities, it is critically important to understand community-specific patterns and determinants of population-level neonatal care seeking practices, especially for preterm newborns.
In mid-March, the Republic provided a pretext for an attack on itself by appointing her own candidate to the vacant bishopric of Vicenza (an act in keeping with prevailing custom, though Julius considered it a personal provocation); the Pope called for all Christian nations to join him in an expedition to subdue Venice.
He did not take her as his mistress, as was the prevailing custom with priests for whom celibacy was too rigorous.
In addition, the prevailing custom that required widows (who may have already been HIV-positive) to marry their husband's brother or closest kinsman may have further accelerated the spread of the infection (4).
Sixty years ago, in 1892, "The Morning," a half-penny daily, started under American influence, opened with news on the front page; this was criticised as "un-English" and the paper soon reverted to the prevailing custom.
