He urged the state to rethink the almost universal practice of paying teachers based on their education level and how many years they have taught. (nytimes.com)
In near - universal practice in the Western world, the planets in the solar system are named after Graeco - Roman gods, as, in Europe, it was the Greeks who named them, although the practice of naming planets after gods originated in the West with the Sumerians, who lived in modern - day Iraq in about 3000 B.C.E. Successive Mesopotamian civilizations, such as the Babylonians, retained the Sumerian naming convention but adapted it to their own very different pantheons. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
This is not as universal a practice as the observance of the birthday celebrations of the Holy Prophet. (religion-online.org)