Sentence examples for social custom from inspiring English sources

Somewhere between personal preferences and social custom, moreover, the peer group asserts itself.

They are a mirror not only of fashion but also of social custom.

In recent months, this once surreptitious social custom has begun spilling into public view.

Again, social custom has a part to play in protecting the buyers.

Tim Pigott-Smith's excellent Higgins is like some overgrown baby whose ego has never adapted to social custom.

They were entwined in a Manhattan grapevine where the exchange of corporate information is a social custom.

Dress codes do exist in France as elsewhere, but their enforcement is through social custom rather than law.

It has become a social custom as American as a small, rectangular, hand-held, frozen and reheated apple pie.

It has become a social custom as American as a small, rectangular, hand-held, frozen, and reheated apple pie.

Discrimination based on gender is illegal, but social custom has rendered a wide variety of occupations inaccessible to women.

Other cultures may show high acceptance of drinking as a social custom with a norm directing moderate use.