Even though bride kidnapping was outlawed during the Soviet era, it remains a custom integral to Kyrgyzstani culture.
Further confusing matters (as was, and remains, his custom), he told an interviewer that his movie was "a simple film, without mystery".
Now he has unimaginable logistical concerns, from how best to preserve the human remains (custom-built drying chambers) to making sure the design of the ground zero memorial, which will hold unclaimed or unidentified body fragments, will enable people to reclaim them years from now.
It remains a widespread custom to kiss the hands of a priest who has just celebrated his first Mass or who has celebrated a special Mass close to the time of his ordination.
Over the past centuries, consanguineous marriages were a common practice, and the custom remains prevalent in many countries (Bittles and Black 2010a; Hamamy et al. 2011).
Mike Cohen, president of Oxxford Clothes, a custom and ready-to-wear tailored clothing company, says that while his ready-to-wear suit business remains stable, his custom business is up an astonishing 85% so far this year.
True, this might be the only chance we get to hear these songs together in a large venue, but the fact remains: they were custom-made for bedsits.
The new housing of Macao has to be read as a high-quality extension of the proposed Zhuhai CBD, even if there remains a formal customs and immigration border, the official spoken languages are different, and traffic moves in opposite directions on each side of this border (Figure 3).
But "Custom" remains for the power users.
A British colony until 1997, Hong Kong remains a separate customs territory with its own legal and economic system.
