Sentence examples for universal custom from inspiring English sources

The real backlash to the universal custom began around the turn of the century.

After death, it has been the universal custom to prepare the corpse for final disposal.

A Galaxy player had gone to the turf with an injury and, as is the universal custom in soccer, the Red Bulls kicked the ball over the end line in the Los Angeles half of the field.

In a concrete political sense, as well, the common (though not universal) custom of clan or moiety exogamy, or out-marriage, smoothed social relations by ensuring that households included members of different corporate groups.

Simultaneously, and contrary to the prior nearly universal custom of solo research, these men began to build research groups in which their practicum students assisted in their research projects.

But, while it is true that their sense of living in an expanding world made them more aware than their predecessors of the unity of mankind and more anxious to assert it, their theory contained no pacts or covenants, only good and useful universal custom, which might be expected to change as nations developed.

Consider the fit : A universal or custom fit style is possible as well as semi-custom fit, in a wide choice of fabrics.

Boris Karloff is credited simply as KARLOFF, which was Universal's custom during the height of his career.

The app is universal, and thus custom tailored for both the iPhone and the iPad (and it's really, really damn pretty on the iPad. Solid job, Microsoft).

If the traditional Thanksgiving feast is inherently American, then the ongoing use of the surplus it generates is really a nod to the custom universal to good cooks, of making the most out of each ingredient's every part.

The micro-satellite platform is divided into components-based software modules and hardware modules that comprise reconfigurable module, universal module and custom-built system in the proposed methodology.