Sentence examples for the established custom from inspiring English sources

It thus became the established custom that a member of the Fujiwara family should serve as sesshō and kampaku.

After declining to blink in the face of the British Medical Association's final ultimatum – the established custom of health secretaries since the 1940s – Mr Hunt now has to navigate a way through these formidable difficulties in a mood, not of consultative professionalism, but industrial antagonism.

Gentlemen had said that it had been the established custom of this country to elect annually; but, he asked, have we not gone from a colonial to an independent situation?

The evidence of the journal suggests that, despite Boswell's acquaintance with some of the most forward-thinking people of his time – including Voltaire and Rousseau, both of whom he sought out – there was to be no redemption from the established customs of a life largely guided by the markers of class, money and religion.

For centuries children had been dressed as miniature adults, but in the 1770s there was a marked divergence from this established custom.

Artabazanes claimed the crown as the eldest of all the children, because it was an established custom all over the world for the eldest to have the pre-eminence; while Xerxes, on the other hand, urged that he was sprung from Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, and that it was Cyrus who had won the Persians their freedom.

When three babies sued to prevent the use of firecrackers to celebrate India's Diwali festival, because the crackers create enormous clouds of smoke, the courts declined to intervene, referring to well established custom.

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With clinical balance and congruent patella tracking established, custom trial patellar components that were thicker than the standard trial by 2-mm increments (2-8 mm) were sequentially placed and trialed.

But this activism — running schools and prisons, overturning referendums, riding roughshod over established custom or law — has warped our politics, most notably with the abortion issue.

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