Sentence examples for religion custom from inspiring English sources

Delegates and activists are pointing fingers at the Vatican, Iran and Russia for trying to eliminate language in a draft communiqué asserting that the familiar excuses — religion, custom, tradition — cannot be used by governments to duck their obligation to eliminate violence.

They simply asserted that governments have an obligation to make sure women in their countries are protected, that women in every corner of the world have a right to bodily integrity, and that religion, custom or tradition are not excuses for governments to skirt their obligations to protect all their citizens.

Ten years ago, governments including Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Egypt and the US would not agree to paragraphs in the outcome document that did not allow religion, custom or tradition to be used as an excuse to avoid a government's obligation to eliminate violence.

Many claim rights based on being Canaanites, despite no connection with Canaanite language, religion, customs,culture, literature or even genealogy.

These few points illustrate how in certain times, ethnic identity can be chosen, and it is more about how people identify themselves in terms of culture, religion, customs, value orientation and behaviours.

This was the first time in history that a world power had guaranteed the survival of the Jewish people, religion, customs and culture".

Peter and his elder brother John were raised by Tuhbenahneequay in the Midewiwin religion, customs and lifestyle of their Mississauga ancestors, and learned to hunt and fish to support themselves.

The empire was a vast congeries of peoples and races with differing religions, customs, and languages, and the emperors were content to let them live their own lives.

It was a conscious policy of Cyrus and Darius to permit conquered nations to retain their own religions, customs, methods of doing business, and even to some extent forms of government.

"We've had our religions, customs and traditions since time immemorial.

When the indigenous peoples of the Americas encountered European settlers in the 15th century, they faced people with wildly different religions, customs, and tragically diseases; the encounters wiped out large swaths of indigenous populations within decades.