Sentence examples for a horrific practice from inspiring English sources

She was speaking expansively to characterize something that she understands to be a horrific practice," he said.

The proof on this occasion was breast-ironing, a horrific practice in which the breasts of girls are flattened with hot objects to delay the onset of puberty.

Your consensus, readers, was that it's a horrific practice, despite arguments made by the Chinese traditional medicine industry that bile farming is "humane," as Fang Shuting, the head of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said: "The process of extracting bear bile is like turning on a tap: natural, easy and without pain," Mr. Fang said.

Supt Tim Bacon described FGM as "a horrific practice" and said the posters were designed to reflect that.

There also have been cases of children being maimed in order to bring in more money from begging, a horrific practice dramatized in the film Slumdog Millionaire.

"If even one person was subjected to such a horrific practice, and we believe a small number were, that is a terrible tragedy and the fact that it occurred on a limited scale does not diminish the savagery of such a crime," Williamson said in the statement.

It baffles me that we, as a society, allow the horrific practice of shackling to continue without more outrage.

The figure represents a rapid escalation of the horrific practice and is already four times higher than the whole of 2016, UNICEF said.

Of course, Dr. Grandin's poetic rendering of the stairway to heaven doesn't fool many because it's really a stairway to slaughter -- a stairway to death - and a walkway that does nothing to end the horrific practice of factory farming.

"This is a devastating first decision under guidelines that had offered so much hope for Appalachian residents who thought the EPA was standing up for their health and water quality in the face of a horrific mining practice," said Amanda Starbuck of the Rainforest Action Network.

The United States has issued a powerful statement in response to Iceland's horrific practice.