1.   Any culture, because it has to retain traditional customs and beliefs, has to be in a sense a conservative institution.

2.   At least Mandru did not expect his Ixmaritians to perform naked, as was the traditional custom.

3.   The children learn about traditional customs, crafts, music, and dance.

4.   Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.

5.   But the boarding schools also made it a policy to sternly discourage their native charges from speaking their own languages or following traditional customs.

6.   But there are many others who are attentive to their traditional customs, and for them, New York can be a lonely and constricting place.

7.   Freedoms have been available mainly to the small urban middle class, and have always been limited by traditional customs and underdevelopment intensified by war.

8.   The Israeli kibbutzim, one of the most determined efforts ever to carry out such a project, have gradually moved back toward more traditional customs.

9.   The Satmars are distinguished by strict fealty to traditional customs and dress, and most speak Yiddish as their first language, Heilman said.

10.   The sect has been compared to the Amish in their traditional customs, way of life and dress.