Sentence examples for Outlawed practices from inspiring English sources

They compared hunting with hounds to the already outlawed practices of bear baiting and cock fighting.

One of the outlawed practices is the refusal of an employer to bargain with the representative of his employees.

The act, originally signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, outlawed practices such as poll taxes and literacy tests that many Southern jurisdictions used to depress black voter turnout.

But because so many of the outlawed practices were also huge revenue generators for the companies issuing cards, financial institutions have responded by preemptively raising interest rates across the board and introducing new fees.

It was more than a little disheartening to learn of the crippling fear inside the newsroom of the New York Times, where editors and reporters were so afraid of offending, so afraid of anyone thinking that the newspaper was taking a side, that the news staffers refused to label globally outlawed practices such as waterboarding as "torture".

Sati, a now outlawed practice, expected the widow to immolate herself on her husband's funeral pyre, either willingly or under pressure from the family and society.

The European Court of Justice outlaws practices inconsistent with a single market.

Secular society has a right to outlaw practices which contravene fundamental human rights.

He said the bill would benefit consumers by promoting competition and outlawing "practices like price-fixing, bid-rigging and market allocation that drive up costs".

We have a code of practice which outlaws practices such as retrospective discounting, but this isn't worth the paper it is written on without effective enforcement".

Gabriela Rivadeneira, the president of Congress, praised the reform for outlawing practices such as "lynching by media" (roughly, character assassination), and said that the new law would curb the press's supposed habit of "vetoing and vexing citizens".