Sentence examples for what customs from inspiring English sources

Because these five Latin phrases are all you really need to get by in the modern world: Translation: Oh what times, oh what customs.

From an early age, one is required to gather clues and artifacts in order to understand the clan and divine what customs to observe.

It makes no difference what part of the world you're in, what customs and foods surround you, or what language you're saturated in, whether Latinate, tonal, or the urban slang of Ulan Bator.

Other religion-at-work arguments are much harder to resolve: whether, for example, medical staff can wear headgear, or crosses, in situations where all adornments would normally be banned on grounds of safety or hygiene.In traditional, cosmopolitan societies (in south Asia and the Middle East, for example) people negotiated daily life by more-or-less knowing what customs their neighbours observed.

Negotiating what customs from each of the religions can be a wonderful opportunity for couples to sort out their religious beliefs before marrying.

But added staff and technology have greatly expanded what Customs and Border Protection officers call their situational awareness.

So Jaguar economizes by doing what custom coachbuilders did until World War II: creating elegantly appointed new bodies for existing mechnical components.

There are very few limits on what custom tasks may do: Vadaparty [ 36] describes a custom-task set for WWF created at Merrill Lynch that invokes multiprocessor parallel hardware over a network to execute complex finance-related tasks in a manner transparent to the non-programmer workflow author.

He offers what the customs officers, security guards and fellow migrants can barely muster: recognition of Tanya's humanity.

(I smuggled in a Bible to see what the customs officials would say, but they didn't inspect my bags).

"I don't know what Swiss customs will say about it," said Mr. Gates, chairman of Microsoft and co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.