prevalent custom

The design is chosen by the groom's family according to prevalent customs.

Drinking wine was a prevalent custom in ancient India.

The film is based on the widely prevalent custom of Varakatnam meaning Dowry.

He is believed to have forcibly occupied the vacant leadership, much against the then prevalent custom among the Jats.

He has acted without questioning the prevalent custom of his society and is now faced with the tragic consequences of that act.

"So far as he possibly can a man must conform to common prejudices, prevalent customs and all laws,-whatever his estimate of them may be."

This often puts him at odds with the prevalent customs and notions of Confucianism and those that support them.

But, while the queen is ordered to merely produce an heir through the prevalent custom of Niyoga, she ends up enjoying the sexual act.

In line with the prevalent customs, some of the rulers performed the Aswamedha and other Vedic sacrifices.

She asked him to father children on the widowed queens of Vichitravirya according to the prevalent custom of Niyoga.

To do this he should wear subdued rather than bright colors, though in general attire he should follow the prevalent customs of his surroundings.

The Mishnah Berurah wrote that only the steps forward are necessary, while the backward steps beforehand are a prevalent custom.

To protest the prevalent custom of non-education to female,Ramni Mohan Singh offered his first child Smt.

As was the then prevalent custom, she was married off at a very young age to a Brahmin temple priest from the village of Padmanpora, the present-day Pampore.

The most prevalent custom, however, is to place a cluster of oak twigs, with their brown leaves still attached, in whichever location in the home the family feels is appropriate.

Read some of the law cases in ancient Greece, of a man who refused to let his slaves be tortured so as to get at the truth, as was the prevalent custom.

After Minha prayers on Friday the prevalent custom is to read the Song of Songs, which is known in Hebrew as Shir Hashirim.

Hod originally had the surname Fine which he changed later on to Hod, keeping with the prevalent custom that period of taking a Hebrew surname when joining the armed forces.

A prevalent custom in the then erstwhile State of Bhopal (a Muslim State) was that whenever the State or the feudal lords constructed any building, the foundation stone for a masjid was laid first.

A new division would most likely de-emphasize the pursuit of national championships and establish more restrictive rules on the length of seasons, recruiting, eligibility and perhaps abolish protracted off-season practices, a surprisingly prevalent custom in Division III.

Due to the prevalent custom of the time, shoes were not allowed beyond certain points within the palace and as such it was customary for aides to hold the shoes of their superiors in their hands as a mark of respect.