One customary obligation no longer serves the other, as it were.

'That's not customary in our house.'

Holmes accepted defeat with his customary grace.

Is this is a customary practice in China?

(j) To address traditional or customary practices affecting the health of women and girls in education curricula, as appropriate

As Bishnu takes me through these albums, I see her negotiating the boundary between customary ritual and modern womanhood.

Now we ll examine the code in detail, in our customary fashion.

VIENNA As is customary at the start of a new year, imposing statistics and trend forecasts are being trumpeted worldwide.

Nevertheless, customary practices such as publish or perish,' peer review and academic tenure ensure that they are indeed good scientists.

Considering that the jurisdictional immunities of States and their property are generally accepted as a principle of customary international law,

Things such as Facebook statuses cursing the electricity company, or happy tweets indicating the return of electricity, have become customary.

As Hatoyama could not keep his promise to safeguard the interests of the Okinawan people, he followed up with a customary resignation.

It is customary for wedding guests to compel the groom into drinking as well as to tease the bride to encourage them for their first night together.

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And if you wish to engage a wet nurse you may do so if you pay her an agreed amount as is customary.

Customary inflation forecasts and economic analysis alone are not a sufficient basis for monetary policy decisions.

In Asian culture it's customary to take one's shoes off before entering a house or temple.

Street demonstrations (or, as the French say Amanif ) are a traditional part of the political vocabulary in France, and these seem to be evolving along customary lines.

The customary procedure is that the victim s family gets to kill someone from the perpetrator s sub clan.

As is customary prior to the inauguration of any important group activity, the organizing team invited a local yachak (shaman) to perform a Kichwa ceremony called wakcha kary .

It is customary to link Africa's failures to slavery and colonization, and no one can deny such claims.

The transitional cabinet declared itself a follower of the customary Sharia law, of which we have already heard.

It became a customary to hear ululations of joy in the neighbourhood when the electricity was turned on, as if it was an exceptional event which called for celebration.

According to witness accounts as reported by local media outlets, after the groomsmen handed over the customary red packet gift for the bride s family, the family opened the door.

In Russia, it is customary to remove your shoes when entering a home. Guests will be typically offered slippers.

This is a central part of Israel s policy, in flat defiance of international law and customary norms of civilized behavior.

And in the first session, they all said, This is not bribery, what we are doing. This is customary there.

Affirming that the rules of customary international law continue to govern matters not regulated by the provisions of the present Convention,

The present articles are without prejudice to any obligation incurred by States under relevant treaties or rules of customary international law.

quot The nature and function of marriage gifts in customary African marriages quot , American Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 23 (1975).

In some regions, wealthy families would hire prostitutes to entertain the guests, but that was not part of the customary practice.

But Benedict XVI reappointed him to the position on 21 April 2005, in spite of being past the customary retirement age.

There are ancient taboos on the use of poison or plague as weapons or for warfare, and doing so has long been stigmatized in many cultures and prohibited by customary international law and international treaties.

But by agreeing to take the official oath before the court, rather than before parliament as is customary, he is bowing to the military's will in an indication that the contest for power will continue.

That was Uday s customary line, about the time we were all caught and punished when the guard walked in as Uday was lifting me up to try and light the cigarette from the ceiling lamp.

When he saw her, he came toward her with his customary ironical smile and looked straight at her with his large tired eyes.

It is customary for U.S. presidential candidates to make their tax returns public, although they are not required by law to do so.

On the morning of December 21, Ceausescu stepped onto the balcony of the Central Committee in the heart of Bucharest to address the people cadres of state workers assembled, as was customary, to cheer on cue.

As in former years, at the beginning of the spring he went abroad to recuperate his health, which was upset each year by the winter's work. And as usual he returned in July and at once with increased energy took up his customary work.

Successive Indonesian governments headed by Presidents Habibie, Abdulrahman Wahid and Megawati Sukarnoputri all welcomed the Chinese to play their customary leading role in business.

But the flip side of the cash nexus is the freedom and self determination that comes from overturning customary social relations such as slavery and serfdom, which totally subordinated the individual to the will of a master.

(e) The fact that the elimination of harmful traditional or customary practices will be considered during the special session of the General Assembly on children

Mrs. Bari lost her husband Abdoulaye Djibril Barry during one of the violent repressions in Guinea that were customary under the dictatorship of Sékou Touré.

For example, lecturers and professors are not tested for their expertise, nor employed to carry out specific research projects. Nevertheless, customary practices such as publish or perish,' peer review and academic tenure ensure that they are indeed good scientists.

But, because China has ratified UNCLOS and the US respects it as customary international law, there is a basis for serious direct negotiation over clarification of the ambiguous nine dashed line and the preservation of freedom of the seas.