Sentence examples for a destructive practice from inspiring English sources
Although child marriage is seen as a way of preserving cultures and protecting vulnerable girls from the uncertainties of refugee life, humanitarian agencies argue it is a destructive practice.
Making the choice to commit to our personal truths can be a destructive practice.
It's also a reminder that sharks deserve to be part of our lives for more than one week each year, and many shark populations are on the verge of collapse due to a destructive practice called shark finning.
Spirits were high on Monday, October 21 as seven representatives of Earth Quaker Action Team were lead away by Pittsburgh police for refusing to stop speaking out about PNC Bank's financing of mountaintop removal coal mining, a destructive practice that causes cancer and birth defects in Appalachia.
These mitigated skeptics thus changed the status of argument on either side from a critical and, in effect, destructive practice into a positive method for rationally confirming and, indirectly, teaching philosophical conclusions.
Skylarks are used as the justification for every kind of destructive practice a land manager wants to inflict.
Shark finning involves the cruel and destructive practice of cutting off a shark's fins while its body is often thrown overboard where it is left to die.
In some, a destructive fishing practice called bottom trawling, which scours life from the ocean floor, is permitted.
Late yesterday afternoon, the Bush administration approved a change in federal regulations that will henceforth legalize the environmentally destructive practice of dumping mining wastes in valleys, streams and wetlands.
Instead, a leading climate scientist argues, the Obama administration must prohibit this destructive practice, which is devastating vast stretches of Appalachia.
Today is the final day for public comment on a proposed rule change in the Clean Water Act that would allow the environmentally destructive practice called mountaintop-removal mining, common in the coal-bearing regions of the Southeast, to continue unimpeded.
