through custom

Examples (10)

• The rules have grown up through custom and are not laid down by law.
• Many of our social etiquette rules were established through custom rather than explicit instruction.
• In that village, the right to graze cattle on common land was determined through custom.
• The common law itself evolved largely through custom and judicial precedent.
• The meanings of some words change through custom and widespread usage over many years.
• Their particular way of negotiating deals developed through custom and has been passed down for generations.
• How we greet elders in our culture is a practice learned through custom, not from a textbook.
• The unwritten rules of the community, established through custom, are often more powerful than any formal regulations.
• It was through custom that the tradition of the annual harvest festival began.
• Certain traditions that seem strange to outsiders have been sanctified through custom and are deeply meaningful to the locals.