Customs in example sentence

Anti-corruption efforts – whether directed at political bosses, officials who turn a blind eye to customs violations, or local traffic cops accepting a few dollars for an infraction – should figure centrally in the region’s strategy for mitigating inequality.

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I'm thinking here, for example, of customs like ancestral worship, of a very distinctive notion of the state, likewise, a very distinctive notion of the family, social relationships like guanxi, Confucian values and so on.

I was a customs officer for Canada back in the mid-'90s.

I learned a lot about deception while doing my duty here in customs, one of which was that most of what I thought I knew about deception was wrong, and I'll tell you about some of that tonight.

But the research over the last 50 years says there's actually no reliable cue to deception, which blew me away, and it's one of the hard lessons that I learned when I was customs officer.

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