Sentence examples for system of customs from inspiring English sources

In the absence of regular taxation or an effective system of customs and tariffs, the economies of the territories were poor and their administrations weak and corrupt.

He is preparing legislation to reform the country's chaotic system of customs laws and their corrupt administration and, in the fall, a major overhaul of Russia's legal system: courts, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies.

The last measure of this kind (1733) had not been enforced, but this time the government set up a system of customs houses, staffed by British officers, and even established a vice-admiralty court.

"The Internet is a borderless entity, and in the world of electronic communications, there is no comparable system of customs rules that regulated the commerce of goods in the past".

Three attributes were essential for membership in the Ottoman ruling class: profession of loyalty to the sultan and his state; acceptance and practice of Islam and its underlying system of thought and action; and knowledge and practice of the complicated system of customs, behaviour, and language known as the Ottoman Way.

These dimensions are combined in Malinowski's (1931, 623) formulation: "Culture is a well organized unity divided into two fundamental aspects a body of artifacts and a system of customs".

"My father built a whole system of custom-built glass shelves and artificial lights, so I could grow African violets in my apartment," she recalled.

The complete system of custom batteries, sensors, feedback control systems and algorithms not only allows for unheard of charge times, but also extends the life of the battery.

The penetration of Western consumer culture into remote corners of the world tends to be viewed, simplistically, as either cause for celebration or for alarm, a force that will either sweep away outmoded traditions or destroy ancient, fragile systems of custom and belief.

Reform of the tax system, of the customs service, of the courts, of the banks, of the bureaucracy: its programme is full of things that the rest of the world has been urging it to do for years.

The celebration of fundamental understandings and values through worship bestows solidity and substance on them so that they become a part of the divinely ordained system of laws, customs, and social practices.