Sentence examples for western custom from inspiring English sources

Tipping Tipping is not part of Chinese culture or tradition, but the Western custom has been spreading in recent years.

We should not be surprised if the Algerian response again owes more to local than Western custom.

He imitated Western custom by holding social gatherings at which his wife participated in the discussions; he also taught his son Latin and Greek.

The Western custom of after-work drinks is rare, though there is a growing trend for business colleagues to meet for coffee.

According to Western custom, the mosaics of the basilical parts depict narrative cycles: scenes from the Old Testament and from the lives of Saints Peter and Paul.

Hiperue Koruhama, a villager with two wives and nine children, had never heard of New York or the United States or the western custom of numbering years and naming months.

The attacks on the school are cast as an effort not to oppress Afghan women, but to protect them from Western customs that take away their dignity.

The cheek-by-jowl proximity of world religions and a tolerance of western customs even while clinging to ancient traditions of dress and behaviour are peculiarly Keralan traits.

Frank Nuñez, a Universal Life minister, officiated at a nondenominational ceremony that incorporated Chinese and Western customs at the Rusty Pelican restaurant in Miami.

The islanders, who initially were not certain if the Englishmen were even human, came to experiment with Western customs and in some cases joined the voyagers on their expeditions.

Slavophiles still blame Peter the Great for forcing Western customs on Russia, but the foreign experts who flocked to Russia at his invitation were replaced, as soon as possible, by Russians they had trained.