The phrase "a practice that leaves" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method or behavior that results in a particular outcome or effect.
Example: "Adopting a practice that leaves a positive impact on the environment is essential for sustainable development."
Alternatives: "a method that results in" or "an approach that produces".
Olaya also anticipates more subcontracting in Colombian industries -- an already-prevalent practice that leaves workers with few benefits and little recourse when it comes to wages and working conditions.
In practice, that leaves his policy little different from that of the governing party of President Lee Teng-hui, although the Nationalists still pay lip service to a distant goal of unifying in some way with the mainland they fled after their defeat to the Communists in 1949.
This is a ritual that encourages people to splash colors on one another, a practice that often leaves the targets looking like multihued Rorschach tests.
But the blurbing game is also evolving as newspaper film critics disappear and studios become more comfortable quoting Internet bloggers and movie Web sites in their ads, a practice that still leaves plenty of potential for filmgoers to be bamboozled.
What the French actually go in for, in a big, confusing way, is double-cheek kissing — this one, then that one — a practice that has, over the years, left many a Texan woman turning awkwardly away from a welcoming Frenchman and his kiss just when she ought to have been readying her left cheek for the retour.
If this is the path we choose, we are left with a practice that doesn't bring us more energy, attention, or joy in being alive.
Comey described a set of email practices that left Clinton's systems wide open to monitoring.
Taken together, these and many other of the 30 major findings paint a sobering picture of conditions, policies and practices that left the Army ill prepared to hold and question thousands of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib, officials said.
With a new philosophy and a million-dollar makeover ($500,000 of it a grant from Entergy Nuclear Northeast), the hospital has added new triage rooms and treatment rooms -- including a decontamination room -- and tried to change the practices that left patients sighing in the waiting room.
The new management of Critical Path, an Internet software company, said late last week that the questionable accounting practices that left its reputation in tatters were largely confined to its fourth-quarter sales in the United States.
