prevailing custom

For others here, prevailing customs can make any amount of cash look bad.

You're always so busy with your new job you don't know anything about prevailing custom.

The sisters set themselves in opposition to the prevailing custom.

In 2011, she was regarded as the artist of annual prevailing custom.

This dramatically differed from the prevailing custom of the times.

As per the prevailing customs he was supposed to get married after passing his class examinations.

The drums would be beaten in accordance with the prevailing custom.

"Finzan" tells the stories of two women who go up against the prevailing customs.

He does not think that the apostles, generally, are making social statements on prevailing customs.

It may be assumed that the society would have been governed on the basis of some prevailing customs and traditions.

And now he had goaded her into waltzing in defiance of the prevailing custom.

Between 32 and 35 communities in the state have been identified as being "indigenous" based on prevailing customs and tradition.

In accordance with a prevailing custom, Constantine was baptised on his deathbed.

Only when the goods are moved to consumers within the country in which the zone is located do they become subject to the prevailing customs duties.

He broke with the prevailing custom of the times by disregarding purdah restrictions and sending his daughters to school.

This meant that Christopher as a younger son tried to keep the sons of his older brothers from ruling Denmark, which went against prevailing customs.

In 1867, the prevailing custom in the United States was to order papermaking machines from abroad.

Although the cons far outweigh the pros, chewing pinang is still a prevailing custom in Taiwan to this day.

There, as was the prevailing custom, upper-caste Hindu students did not allow him to sit along with them and hence he sat alone in a corner.

The film was made in three different versions - French, English, and German, as was sometimes the prevailing custom.

The accounts by friends and associates, though wearyingly worshipful, do indicate how she quietly undermined some of the prevailing customs.

Against the prevailing custom of anonymous authorship, The Academy provided the full names of its writers.

He did not take her as his mistress as was the prevailing custom with priests for whom celibacy was too rigorous.

Della Casa tells his reader that outward appearance is very important, so clothes must be tailored and conform to prevailing custom, reflect one's social status.