Sentence examples for the accepted custom from inspiring English sources

As was the accepted custom in informal adoption, paperwork was sometimes faked: women relinquished babies who weren't biologically theirs; girls under the age of 18 showed birth certificates claiming they were adults; babies with a married birth mother were listed as having only one parent.

The dispute is not about interpretations of religious law, he added, but about the sanctity and the accepted custom of the place.

The president and the ambassador did not visit the village of Granai, where the bombing occurred, and they did not stay for lunch, which is the accepted custom in Afghanistan, possibly because of security concerns.

("I feel that it is not the psychiatrist's privilege to be exempt from the generally accepted custom of our culture in which one is not paid for services not rendered," she wrote in her book "Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy").

None of the widowed mothers had remarried as it is accepted custom in the Kosovar society that a widowed mother should not remarry.

Any didacticism in the message behind the story - that honour killings are no less horrifying for being accepted custom in rural Pakistan - is cancelled out by the magnificence of Ahmad's storytelling.

The challenge filed by her attorneys was that slavery was a socially accepted custom but was not officially recognized in New Brunswick.

Finite volume discretization of space, and implicit time discretization are accepted custom in engineering and scientific computing.

But it highlighted something of a trend among a certain subset of couples who are looking outside (sometimes way outside) accepted custom.

THE St. Patrick's Day season in the United States has its accepted customs, from the deconstruction of the meanings behind a simple parade to the All Things Irish come-ons that dominate public television.

Indeed, the slippage between detachment and participation within accepted customs defines their very identity.