Sentence examples for regional custom from inspiring English sources
The little power that remained with the estates was wielded at the local level, as provincial assemblies were easier to attend and manage as well as better at adhering to regional custom.
She danced to reggae-funk music on Friday night and spent the better part of Saturday partaking of a regional custom called caravan, in which she coursed through dense neighborhoods in the back of a pickup for six straight hours while waving, blowing kisses and bobbing to songs blaring from a 15-foot-high sound truck.
Though the individuals we have encountered in our travels across the country have been, without exception, unstinting in their kindness, each sympathetic greeting in a new accent, each meal of local specialties prepared to welcome us, each regional custom of hospitality has confirmed not only the open-hearted generosity of our fellow Americans but also that we are strangers among them.
Clearly, impressing evidence-based behaviors requires overcoming considerable traction of regional custom practices.
The lingering influences of their ancestors' cultures demarcate communities on a level beyond mere regional custom, socioeconomic class, or even religion.
As an exercise, we used China and Japan's inter-regional IO tables, the OECD inter-country IO tables, and China and Japan's regional customs statistics to compile the regionally extended inter-country IO table.
Their backgrounds as nationals from the region also ensured they had awareness of local and regional customs as well as religious norms.
"The France of the 'terroir,' of regional customs, of traditions.
The optional fare in the baskets is surprisingly varied, reflecting regional customs and differing degrees of assimilation.
But receipts from a regional customs' union last year plummeted to 2.9 billion rand ($343m), less than half their normal total, plunging the country into crisis.
There are thousands of editions of the Haggadah, each with its own illustrations, commentaries, and records of regional customs, though the main body of text has been kept intact since around the second century C.E.
