Sentence examples for rooted customs from inspiring English sources

In this land of extreme poverty and deeply rooted customs, UNICEF has worked with more than 200 such traditional chiefs to address issues of child protection, survival and development.

In a country with deeply rooted customs and tremendous challenges to development, UNICEF is using a blend of traditional and modern, institutional as well as grassroots approaches to build on the measurable progress that has already been made to initiate change and improve lives.

As further causes, the report pointed to deeply rooted customs like the exchange of brides between two families, the betrothal of babies at birth, the giving of girls as brides to settle blood feuds, and the continued practice of polygamy in some regions.

As the original post states, it's unclear if access to this feature will be able enabled/disabled at the carrier's whim (I imagine it will be), but — as a buhzillion rooted and custom-ROMed Android users have already proven — that fact is almost moot.

Entitlement is usually rooted in custom.

The Droid X has been enjoying the US states for the last 5 months, and what an adventure it's had: from talk of self-destruction mechanisms, to its first root, custom recoveries, and — finally — an update to Froyo, the Droid X is eager to take a new journey down south… to Mexico.

Pacma said no rite, tradition or custom rooted in a series of deaths and nourished by blood and hatred could be seen as healthy in any society, adding: "We know of only one ethical means to do away with all this: the total abolition of bullfights".

Jirga law is rooted in tribal customs and in the power of tribal elders.

Our identity is an ancient one, rooted in ancient customs, traditions and culture, all connected to people, place and creation.

Its concerns are at once intensely particular — rooted in old customs and modern circumstances — and universally recognizable, since Turkish society is hardly unique in its dysfunctional gender politics.

It refers not just to a few quaint customs rooted in a bygone age, but to much of what Iranians live by today.