How To Use Customary In A Sentence

  • Until his death, on November 16th, 1272, the King continued to rule and to conduct his customary religious devotions.
  • They'll get the customary 20,000 fine and rap with a feather duster. The Sun
  • He was not going to conduct his presidency through interest groups, by balancing one constituency against another and engaging in the customary horse-trading on the Hill. The Good Fight
  • Yvonne took her customary seat behind her desk.
  • Its work figured in the arguments of advocates in this field that were based on the developing customary law.
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  • And, as is customary, the families would erect a mourning tent.
  • It's customary to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open.
  • It's not customary for people in the publishing industry to ask what readers (as opposed to booksellers or authors or the press) want.
  • A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System , an avoirdupois unit equal to 437.5 grains ( 28.35 grams ).
  • For collective bargaining to have a real point, it must achieve wage rates and non-wage conditions more favourable to the employees than the customary rate.
  • The insult to one of the most senior members of the House, a Vietnam veteran, was a violation of the body's customary decorum as well as its rules, which bar members from directly addressing each other.
  • In seeking to avoid the customary exactions of their office, the sheriffs of the present generation were only following in the steps of sheriffs who, more than a century past, exerted themselves to reduce the expenses of shrievalties, and whose economical reforms were defended by reference to the conduct of sheriffs under the last of the Tudors. A Book About Lawyers
  • It is customary, almost ritualistic, to conclude a paper like this with a call for more research, to broaden the sample, and so on.
  • The opinion referred to a prior decision holding that courts were bound by the applicable customary law.
  • Several university presidents chaired committees and, following customary practices, earned an additional fee for this responsibility.
  • I had my customary blueberry bagel and coffee, but not before Irishing it up a little.
  • He was a classical singer and even when it was not customary for people of the cloth to perform on stage, he did so with aplomb.
  • took his customary morning walk
  • In the US, it's customary to get something that you've paid for (or bled and sweated over, as other examples).
  • Then the accompanying bouillon, a spicy broth scented with chilli and cumin with the customary soft, but not mushy, root vegetables and a sprinkling of firm, floury chickpeas.
  • As for the latter, it seems to be nothing else but the saying Amen to the Presage, uttered in his accustomary form of Speech, as if he should say, you of the invisible Kingdom of Spirits, have given the Token of my sudden Departure, and you say true, I shall be with you by and by. The Iron Chest of Durley
  • Of course, each Simhat Torah flag has an apple and candle, customary among East European Jewry. Menachem Wecker: Mark Podwal's New Jewish Calendar (PHOTO)
  • It's customary for the women to sit apart.
  • I am sitting right at the back of the room, in my customary chocolate brown polo neck sweater, head bowed.
  • Of course, the excitement is dependent upon the wind and lately it has been shifting between the customary north-easterlies and southerlies.
  • He continued to play and record and, despite failing eyesight, he performed with his customary verve once he was perched on a stool on stage. Times, Sunday Times
  • The court customary was the court for unfree tenants or villeins and was presided over by the lord's steward or bailiff.
  • In excursions of this kind it is customary to "hobble" the horses; that is, to tie their fore-legs together, so that they cannot run either fast or far, but are free enough to amble about with a clumsy sort of hop in search of food. The Dog Crusoe and his Master
  • In the hierarchy of local raja he was the most junior of the twelve in the Kei Islands, but he was able to approach the others and start a movement of customary reconciliation.
  • The customary smirk returned to Trey's lips and he about-faced, coming closer to the nervous young man.
  • For him, elites abandoned the customary culture, and it became largely plebeian after 1750.
  • Partible inheritance was, for example, a distinct feature of Kentish gavelkind tenures, which were classified as free, and also survived amongst customary tenants in parts of northern and eastern England.
  • Under such circumstances, the customary law of ethnic minority also plays a realistic role, to a great extent, to adjust civil order at the basic level besides constitutional law.
  • In this account of the Hawsted harvest the large number of hired men and the few customary tenants is noteworthy as a sign of the times, for before the Black Death the harvest work on the demesne was the special work of the latter. A Short History of English Agriculture
  • When his fame arrived – appearances on The Brains Trust, a BBC documentary, the film of Lord of the Flies at the Cannes film festival with a party on a boat, of all things, and of course a sudden relaxation of the customary nerviness about money – we weren't surprised at all. Our parents resented us
  • As is customary in detective films, the film periodically withholds information, and indeed gives false clues in the form of misleading flashbacks.
  • It is based upon the customary international laws of belligerent occupation, including the Hague Regulations.
  • However, these villages' customary landowner clans refused the dam's construction, outlining several reasons.
  • I had popped into a bar with friends for the customary freshly squeezed orange juice.
  • As is customary at the start of a new hunting season, Ferry and the South Shropshire hunt, where he is joint master, were in pursuit of fox cubs.
  • This motif of self-imposed silence, of unarticulated anguish, reappears in other of Gaines's novels and is made all the more prominent by his customary emphasis on the speaking voice.
  • The Boston Globe reports that "[w] hen it became apparent that Clinton was not going to make the customary acknowledgment of Obama's victory in her speech, Obama began his own address before she finished, in effect grabbing the national television spotlight from her and cutting her off midstride" - and he went on to give a 45-minute stem-winder. A Second Sweep For Obama, McCain
  • Kudos to this dancer for thinking beyond the customary perception of affording Rama the superlative prowess; thereby questioning his viability to be worshipped.
  • Men wear several types of hats according to season; black or grey elongated lambskin hats are customary during the winter and straw hats are usually worn during the summer.
  • The servants, powdered and in short breeches as usual, served us in their customary solemnity; but they must have wondered why we preferred to sit on the gravel, with a draught of cold air on our backs, when we might have been comfortably seated in a big and airy room with a carpet under our feet. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
  • In their customary position when the flak flies. The Sun
  • The students vary with regard to their levels of enculturation, that is, familiarity with the accepted customary beliefs and social norms of the dominant group.
  • The tunicle became the customary vestment of the subdeacons; the chasuble was the vestment exclusively worn at the celebration of the Mass, as the pluvial, the liturgical caps, took its place at the other functions. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies, skeptics, self-seekers, into a joyful reverence for the circumambient Whole, and that which was ecstasy shall become daily bread. Uncollected Prose
  • It has become customary to assume that the subject is that which acts and the object is that which is acted upon.
  • A customary error committed by aquarists is to cling to the opinion that the Aponogeton species do not require a rich soil.
  • Barbara answered with her customary enthusiasm.
  • It proved to be to his customary slap what nuclear fission is to gunpowder. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • They rearranged their estates to create larger tenant farms on rack rents, with a decline in small yeomen farmers with customary tenure or freeholds.
  • The debauchee, the souteneur, the rough often break out into murmurs at a slightly risky scene or expression, though they be very harmless in comparison with their customary conversation. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
  • Dipping a round challah in honey is customary at Rosh Hashanah Archive 2007-09-01
  • He joined the club at 18 and served the customary apprenticeship. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead it is now often customary to see bourrées that open and close in the effort to cover space.
  • Rights of access may be conferred both by the common law (e.g., under customary rights or the right to abate a nuisance) and by statute.
  • This, in my view, would be a distortion of the principles underlying customary law of succession and inheritance.
  • Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, again flourished under the protection of the laws; and the curioe, or civil corporations, were again filled with useful and respectable members: the youth were no longer apprehensive of marriage; and married persons were no longer apprehensive of posterity: the public and private festivals were celebrated with customary pomp; and the frequent and secure intercourse of the provinces displayed the image of national prosperity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. Persuasion
  • This new sunlounger trolley should avert the customary row. Times, Sunday Times
  • No, Captain," replied Bob, who was busy undressing; and, within a few moments he had plunged into the sea, and was swimming out with a brave firm stroke in a way that fully justified the Captain's praise of his natatory powers, shouting out at intervals his customary war - cry -- "Jolly! Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
  • He lacks customary deference to party elders (and to the media's own cockeyed definition of reality).
  • However, there have been few attempts to base modern policies of resource conservation and management on customary ways of doing things.
  • In the early 1940s, it became customary to anaesthetize patients with barbiturate injections.
  • Brendel, on the other hand, presented the piano parts in his customary bleak way, clothing the songs in an expressive straitjacket completely at odds with Goerne's fluid vocalism.
  • These provisions fully support the view that certain articles of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea codify customary law.
  • They are designed to deal with customary disputes under customary law. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their customary practice was to deposit receipts in the night deposit box at that branch.
  • I state this so that you will recognise that when we sat down with one of those Euro 2000 wallcharts we approached our customary major tournament forecasting exercise with nothing but detached interest and honest endeavour.
  • Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or gentry.
  • During the Hohenstaufen period, as in the preceding age, the customary education for women of rank consisted chiefly in learning to read the Psalter. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • He did recover his composure and went on an hour-long walkabout with the Leicester Square crowds, signing autographs and chatting on mobile phones in customary fashion.
  • Two other leaders expatiated on the importance of these customary rites and the fact that the deceased was the last of his kind - the great warrior-killer.
  • Bosses put on the customary sad face and whine about being forced to pass on increases because their own costs have rocketed. The Sun
  • The Court of Appeal addressed those common law customary rights, not treaty rights.
  • In places where female infanticide was a customary practice, female foeticide has come in as a deadly substitute that is more convenient, less traumatic and equally effective.
  • In many places in Britain, it was customary to light huge bonfires in the fields to ward off baneful influences, often accompanied by much partying.
  • In delicatessens, it is customary to offer sample tastes of foods as part of the exchange process.
  • Many Southern productions have been lost, and the videotapes re-used, as was customary in those days of very expensive blank videotape on big open reel machines.
  • The American voters gave Democrats clear control of Congress, rebuked President George W. Bush, and voiced an unequivocal public craving to trade in customary narrow-minded politics for something more inspiring. The Heart Of Queens | Disinformation
  • While taking his customary siesta one afternoon, a wild young fellow -- one of his noble poor relations, who "sponged" at the castle -- happened to pass along a corridor outside of the very hall where his Highness was snoring. Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home
  • For the queen of fashion herself, I will make sure my party starts early enough so that she can drop by for her customary 10 minutes before going off to bed at 10 pm.
  • Therefore, that which becomes customary is the most reasonable and appropriate course of action to be followed.
  • The day came round and I took the train to Cardiff; we had tea at the customary 5.30 pm.
  • I think therefore, with great submission to the court, that the right for which I contended, that is, that in common wars between independent nations, either of the contending parties has a right to confiscate or remit debts due by its people to the enemy, is not shaken by the customary law of nations, as far as it regards us, because the custom could not affect us. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
  • What reason was it, O rose of seventeen, adorning thyself with cloudy films of lace and sparks of jewelry before the mirror that reflects youth and beauty, that made Miss Lucinda array herself in a brand-new dress of yellow muslin-de-laine strewed with round green spots, and displace her customary hand-kerchief for a huge tamboured collar, on this eventful occasion? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
  • Although one action does not necessarily establish customary international law, it makes it more difficult the next time around.
  • This year an uncustomary extra award was bestowed.
  • The fall of Rome had also made many of her laws recede into the distance, slowly; Roman statute law was notably more misogynist than the customary law of the tribal groups the empire had conquered.
  • The customary rate for a good caddie varies wildly, even at clubs in the same neighborhood.
  • It is not customary to use the term emancipation for that form of dismissal by which a church is released from parochial jurisdiction, a bishop from subordination to his metropolitan, a monastery or order from the jurisdiction of the bishop, for the purpose of placing such person or body under the ecclesiastical authority next higher in rank, or under the pope himself. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • She came in and up to my chair as usual -- but she did not say her accustomary cold good morning. Man and Maid
  • She was drinking her customary cup of coffee, and looked up at me when I entered.
  • She said that African customary law of inheritance traditionally followed the rule of primogeniture - or oldest ancestor - where the oldest male relative inherited the estate.
  • A free man, this Edric was said to be, farming a yardland as a rent-paying tenant of his lord, a dwindling phenomenon in a country where a tiller of the soil was increasingly tied to it by customary services. An Excellent Mystery
  • Would it not be better if you allow me to submit my material in my customary form and then turn it over to Carol, a damned brilliant girl, to inject the kind of flossy conclusions your readers have come to expect? Centennial
  • In the court a portion of the marble pavement is made to represent a pachisi or chess board, and it is said the game was played with slave girls, who were used instead of the customary chessmen. Travels in the Far East
  • Yvonne took her customary seat behind her desk.
  • However, when such a commander is also empowered to convene courts-martial and has only an official interest in the disposition of the case, it is customary for him to direct an officer of his command to make a preliminary inquiry into the suspected offense and to prefer appropriate charges if the facts shown by such inquiry should warrant the preferring of charges. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
  • That customary land status can easily be turned into freehold title.
  • How can a bureaucrat exhibit his or her customary arm's-length skepticism when the law of the land demands cooperation, facilitation, and a unified common objective?
  • For these women it was customary to apply cosmetics and to dress their hair in the morning.
  • Instead of being robed in the skin of a lion or a leopard that is customary for African royalty, he is clad in a cape made from the skin of some wild animal.
  • In this type of experiment, it is customary to pay the participants for their inconvenience and for agreeing to be good subjects.
  • He began the finals last week in his customary way of drawing Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points by passing him.
  • We share those customary rights with all comers there, and we do not restrict their access.
  • Then he would take off the customary toga praetexta of a Roman boy and put on him the toga virilis, the coat of manhood. THE NAMES OF JESUS
  • In some cultures it is customary for the bride to wear white.
  • The term Gothic used in its customary sense is quite incorrect, but is hallowed by tradition. I. The Great Hall. Book I
  • While this was a deviation for the English population (particularly the middle-class English), who had come from a legal tradition of primogeniture and impartible inheritance, it was less a departure for the Irish population, for whom communal property and partible inheritance had been long-standing customary practices. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • All but a few are alternatim settings of the even verses, leaving the odd verses to be chanted, as was customary, or perhaps played on the organ. Archive 2009-06-01
  • He escaped lifelong identification as an SS member only because by late 1944 the regiments were no longer organised to carry out the customary process of tattooing conscripts' blood group on their arms.
  • That means that a resource consent is not an enactment or rule of law that would prohibit the exercise of a customary right.
  • When once attending a Christening, he discovered that it was customary to make a gift to the nurse, so reportedly stuck his hand in his pocket, pulled out a handful of gold guineas, and gave them to her without a second thought.
  • Pepys relates how he met a seaman returning from fighting the Dutch with his eye-socket "stopped with oakum," and as late at least as the Battle of Trafalgar it was customary, in amputations, to treat the bleeding stump with boiling pitch as a cauterant. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • Do you (or JTA Passover blog readers) have suggestions for a (not too difficult to prepare) "main course" vegetarian option that I can offer them, along with my customary charoset, vegetarian tsimmes, asparagus, mushrooms, and salad? JTA - Recent News
  • It is customary to offer a drink or a snack to guests.
  • The Fort Lupton plant and midstream facilities divestiture, which is subject to certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2011. Encana agrees to sell Fort Lupton natural gas plant and gathering systems in Colorado for US$303 million - Yahoo! Finance
  • When a crisis or dilemma arises, such an organization will resort under duress to its customary self-defeating practices.
  • Known for his humble and unassuming style he often wears his customary hooded brown robe and sandals.
  • During the negotiation stages, project developers who are mostly expatriate men are usually reluctant to work outside frameworks that are considered customary.
  • It is customary to show reference to the Blessed Sacrament by genuflecting on both knees.
  • The town's acquisition of jurisdictions from its lords would have been a sufficient motivation to compile a written set of customary usages of the town.
  • Things that would otherwise be impossible to say are precisely suggested by just the degree of deviation from the expected or the customary.
  • Even the book is a means to an end, not the customary exercise in self-aggrandisement. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is customary in this House to have a bill, after each election and before the next, to tidy up any areas in which there are deficiencies or imperfections.
  • The exhibition's first gallery, with russet and black walls, is lined with customary atrium furnishings: marble statues of men and women, gracefully draped in togas, who might represent the family's ancestors; a marble table supported by four carved griffons; and frescoes depicting Dionysus/Bacchus with his golden drinking cup and the wind god Zephyrus with outspread wings. The Gracious Art of Living
  • Another session examines ways to establish relaxation as our ‘default’ mode in preference to our customary states of stress and mild panic.
  • When the police lodged a case against him recently, he and his supplicants reacted in the customary manner.
  • It's customary to add vinegar or lemon juice to fish, so it seems natural that this should be partnered by a wine high in acidity.
  • The female following are also eagerly anticipating the launch of the season, and particularly the production of the customary team line-up photograph.
  • It was probably an exaggeration of local usage: a modified separation of the sexes, which extended and still extends even to the Badawi, must long have been customary in Arabian cities, and its object was to deliver the sexes from temptation, as the Koran says (xxxii. 32), “purer will this (practice) be for your hearts and their hearts.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • A smooth, clockwise rotation with the right hand is the customary approach with a spurtle. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is becoming customary with some students to apply the term mushroom to the entire group of higher fungi to which the mushroom belongs (_Basidiomycetes_), and toadstool is regarded as a synonymous term, since there is, strictly speaking, no distinction between a mushroom and a toadstool. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • The ICC Statute codifies international customary laws in another respect as well.
  • Now, whether feeding on salt meates before his coming thither, or customary use of drinking, which maketh men unable any long while to abstaine as being never satisfied with excesse; which of these two extreames they were, I know not: but drinke needs he must. The Decameron
  • It is hard to argue that one act creates customary law when the classical concept of custom comes from long usage and recognized scholarly comment.
  • Their vital economic role was reflected in customary testamentary practices that adhered to a relatively gender-inclusive system of partible inheritance, contrasting with the English practice of primogeniture. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • It would still be possible to resolve the issue in a way that recognises both the mana whenua of ancestral title and the customary right of others to go to the beach.
  • Burly forward James McDonnell kicked four goals while John Bowen, playing in the uncustomary position of centre half forward, kicked two.
  • The tendency to im - mobilize poetry was strengthened by a customary as - sumption in Greek literature (found also in Sanskrit poetry and the Vedas): the first known of its poets is also the greatest. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • It was customary for the hostess and ladies to retire to the adjoining drawing room at the end of the meal leaving the men to their own discussions and to drink and smoke.
  • It is still customary in Arabia during the furious tribal fights, the duello on a magnificent scale which often ends in half the combatants on either side being placed hors-de-combat. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Lawyers today are rarely that idolatrous, but most of them salute the customary emblems of American civil religion.
  • With a hollow clink, it once more sat at its customary place, the level of liquid lowered.
  • I always used to think when I saw the customary portraits of Franklin, with his spectacles and his Quakerish homespun garb and his bunlike hair, that there was something grannyish about him. Free and Easy
  • It administered the customary law merchant.
  • Until his death, on November 16th, 1272, the King continued to rule and to conduct his customary religious devotions.
  • Early in the day his supporters had thought little of this, attributing the fall to that vacillation which is customary in such matters; but towards the latter part of the afternoon the tidings from the The Way We Live Now
  • There, he advises that someone should recite the Credo continuously for a dying person, which was the customary practice of his fellow friars.
  • The P99 has the customary passive firing pin and disconnector safeties.
  • With 55 separate jurisdictions however, each with its own indigenous and customary laws, it is dangerous to overgeneralise. Times, Sunday Times
  • In delicatessens, it is customary to offer sample tastes of foods as part of the exchange process.
  • It has become customary to assume that the subject is that which acts and the object is that which is acted upon.
  • I must conceal our packages in the summer-house, and tomorrow night, when the frenzy was at its customary height, we'd foregather at midnight by the back gate and be off. Isabelle
  • Both men vigorously denied any wrongdoing, staunchly defended their men, and aggressively justified the customary practices of the department.
  • Customary tenure systems are generally comprised of holdings and commons.
  • And Britain's most expensive footballer made his by now customary impact on the match with one hugely deflected shot and another saved easily by the keeper. The Sun
  • As Zambia has a dual legal system, the obligation to maintain comes from both customary and statute laws.
  • He was referring to New Hampshire's customary status as the state conducting the nation's first primary. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • The customary greeting involves a firm handshake, direct eye contact, and perhaps a slight nod of the head but rarely embracing or kissing.
  • _alligator_ is a designation of the _genus homo_; in fact, that it is customary for a man to address his fellow-man as “old alligator,” instead of “old fellow.” The Englishwoman in America
  • It did not help that the service to him was in short supply but that customary verve and swagger to his game was conspicuous by its absence. Times, Sunday Times
  • For Davies the English common law, the customary, collective reason of the English people, was the agent of both Anglicization and civilization.
  • The customary verbals gave way to unstinting praise after he was out.
  • In contrast, no previous treaty or customary rule existed regulating method of combat in internal armed conflict.
  • Perhaps, instead of seeing the annual ritual of the Christmas party as indicating a lamentable weakness for excess, we should welcome it as a sign of our customary, compliant sobriety.
  • Whether with the arrival of a younger and more energetic person she was voluntarily relinquishing her hold on her customary tasks, or whether a sudden collapse of her vitality forced her to do so, Lucy could not determine; nevertheless, it was perfectly apparent that she daily attacked her duties more laggingly and complained less loudly when things were left undone. The Wall Between
  • Similarly, it is customary to write Yehudah with an aleph rather than a final hey, lest one accidentally leave out the letter dalet and write the Tetragrammaton.
  • Previous to the results of Minot's and Murphy's experiments the principal mode of treatment adopted, and one that was practised all over the world, was the giving of large doses of arsenic, while in serious cases it was also customary sometimes to resort to splenectomy, that is to say to removal of the spleen by an operation, or to blood transfusion, i.e. the transfer to the patient of blood from another person, a method that is still to be recommended at a critical stage in severe cases. Physiology or Medicine 1934 - Presentation Speech
  • For that reason, it is customary for governors and senators to run for president only after they have won re-election.
  • It is an ethical or moral judgment in the sense that ethos and mores refer to the customary practices of a group.
  • It is customary to divide the rest of the hind-brain into two parts, viz., an upper, called the metencephalon, and a lower, the myelencephalon. IX. Neurology. 2. Development of the Nervous System
  • He almost behaved in his customary cantankerous manner. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Irish gavelkind, it will be seen, is quite different from the gavelkind customary in the county of Kent.
  • Burr remained abroad for four years, living in customary indebtedness. Five People Born on February 6 | myFiveBest
  • It is customary to shrug off new structures when the reality is that we are afraid to replace the plethora of ones that are not working sufficiently well.
  • Under the Vienna Convention (also unratified, but recognized as codifying interpretive principles of customary international law), states that have signed a treaty are not to act so as to undermine it until it has been ratified or rejected by the ratifying body (i.e. unsigning is not contemplated). The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Baltazar Garzón Indicted
  • For the customary morality, that which education and opinion have consecrated, is the only one which presents itself to the mind with the feeling of being _in itself_ obligatory; and when a person is asked to believe that this morality _derives_ its obligation from some general principle round which custom has not thrown the same halo, the assertion is to him a paradox; the supposed corollaries seem to have a more binding force than the original theorem; the superstructure seems to stand better without, than with, what is represented as its foundation. Utilitarianism
  • Mr. Grantley, without any indelicacy or mention of their previous meeting, smiled at her when the customary salutations were being made.
  • On the day the fourth quarter financial report for Hi-T was finished, on a sleety Tuesday in January, Elaine Eisenway did her customary and thorough final review, then logged off and wrote down the password on a slip of paper. VELOCITY
  • That exception covers devolution of property on death or other matters of personal law [as well as] the application of African customary law in any case involving Africans.
  • Everywhere you go there is the customary welcome drink, a pick-up to take you to a standard room for rest and relaxation before the pilgrimage.
  • It is based on centuries of customary international law.
  • This sound, whatever had caused it, seemed to proclaim the climax of the commotion: for immediately after the _Catamaran_ began to compose herself, the waves caused by her continued rocking gradually grew less, until at length, once more "righted," she lay in her customary position upon the tranquil surface of the sea. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
  • unlikely to cause gas or laxation" when consumed at customary serving sizes. FoodNavigator-USA RSS
  • Other expenses whose disallowance were upheld included dry cleaning bills ( "no evidence that dry cleaning is a normal or customary expense in the business of sports writing," the judge wrote) and the taking of the standard mileage deduction on rental cars. In Tax Court, Horse Racing Writer Finishes Out Of The Money
  • Scheindlin said international law clearly recognizes the arbitrary termination of the nationality of a citizen, known as denationalization, by a state actor as a tort in violation of customary international law. Axisoflogic.com
  • Ephrahim, Pastory's nephew and a clan member, filed a suit requesting the Primary Court to declare that the land was void since females had no power under Haya customary law to sell clan land.
  • The general communion customary on holy-thursday is prescribed by the English bishop Walter in the 10th century, in the capitulary of Theodulph of Orleans, and by all ancient pontificals and missals, according to Martene T. 3, p. 98. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
  • The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to maintain customary working conditions in the mines and customary procedure for the adjustment of workers 'grievances. EXECUTIVE ORDER 9728
  • Tapia charged forward in his customary fashion but was constantly forced to eat up Barrera's textbook jabs.
  • Thus, the institution of chieftaincy and its role as established by customary law, together with its councils, is important and should be maintained and guaranteed.
  • She threw herself into the work with her customary enthusiasm, undertaking to make more welfare reach the peasantry. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
  • Without a dar, the Jalul and the handful of other nomadic groups relied on a socio-geographical order that gave them customary rights to migrate and pasture their animals in areas dominated by farmers.
  • The right of pre-emption or exclusive purchase in the same article was used by the Crown to lawfully extinguish Maori customary title and thereby allow alienation.
  • She was coming out for her customary walk at the hour of guard mounting, but the next thing he knew she had "scooted" indoors again. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier

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