accepted custom

It is an accepted custom which causes no curiosity.

Making up such stories was an accepted custom in churches of antiquity and spread widely.

B) as was accepted custom at the time.

Since this was the widely accepted custom, blood revenge prevented feuding.

O-Kuni defied the accepted custom of theater as a man's province.

There were accepted customs to such things.

Nevertheless, there may be certain situations where your not following the accepted customs will be seen as sign of disrespect.

Unseeing, he passed two volunteers urinating in the open-the accepted custom.

In apologetic writing, he often pitted the greater historical traditions of the Church against the accepted customs of his day.

He placed the importance of Veda second and that of accepted customs of practice first.

How poorly they treat their women--although that seems to be the generally accepted custom in the South."

However, today, botellón is a common and accepted custom and is sometimes even regulated in cities.

"But it's an accepted custom, my dear fellow, an accepted custom!"

People have always linked him with Al Jolson, probably because of his use of black-face, which was actually the accepted custom of that era.

Universal equivalent form or universal exchangeability has caused gold to take the place of linen in the socially accepted customs of exchange.

Despite the resulting medieval conflict between emperor and pope, the concept of church maintenance by the ruler remained the accepted custom in most Western European countries.

The Shadow was looking for a large hotel, a modern one, that had introduced the number 13 in its list of stories, in defiance of the accepted custom.

There seems little doubt that Bacon had accepted gifts from litigants, but this was an accepted custom of the time and not necessarily evidence of deeply corrupt behaviour.

To some, it seemed ultimately unfair to stigmatize a woman because as a girl she made what might have seemed at the time to be a naive transgression of accepted custom.

Though etiquette rules may seem arbitrary at times and in various situations, these are the very situations in which a common set of accepted customs can help to eliminate awkwardness.

Moreover, they said, in Soviet medical practice "it is not the accepted custom to discuss with patients the methods for treating them, except for cases where a physician is the patient."

He rarely captained his teams, as the accepted custom of appointing a goalkeeper captain was virtually unheard-of in that era, but his leadership on the field was always evident.

The court will have regard to the general mercantile structure within which a relationship arises, a structure of relationship and expectation built up from accepted custom and methods of dealing.

Similarly, many later halachic authorities predicated the acceptance of the authority of the Shulchan Aruch on the lack of an existing and widely accepted custom to the contrary.

From the moment riders could take their dragons between, they were abjured to avoid situations that might lead to a duel, particularly since dueling was an accepted custom among Craft and Hold.