By Ben McGrath The New Jersey Law Journal, one of America's oldest legal newspapers, published its first issue in 1878, with the following boast: "But if our State is a small part of the nation, she has a judiciary known and honored abroad, and at her Bar are practising men whose legal acumen is not one whit behind that of leading lawyers in other States of the Union".
He pointed to a study this month by the Institut Montaigne, which found a practising Muslim man was four times less likely to get a job interview in France than a Catholic, and Jews were also discriminated against.
I appreciate the Norwegian explorer's point when we practise man-overboard drills on the Hummingbird yacht off the coast of Iceland.
The church that year was divided on the question of whether a practising gay man could be a parish minister.
Justin is a practising Christian.
In the gardens around the Pavilion, we poke our cameras into a bush to capture a man practising some yogic discipline in his shorts, and squat to focus as hen-partiers in top-to-toe union flags strike poses for us.
Mr Handy quotes someone's description of Peter Drucker, the great American management thinker who died last year, as a man "practising the scholarship of common sense".
Veteran left-liberal French journalist Jean-Francois Kahn originally dismissed the DSK case as a "troussage de domestique" – literally, skirt-lifting with a servant, a national sport traditionally practised by men from all walks of life.
All the characters within these scenarios are dissatisfied and isolated: a man and woman have their relationship frozen by her repeated insistence that no one understands her; a man practises his marching drum to the annoyance of whoever it is in the next room; a young woman fantasises about a rock star, and a carpet salesman calls his wife a hag.
Where Springsteen or Dylan would rail at the injustices done to the working man, Flowers, a practising Mormon, takes a more compassionate view, singing: "Don't be afraid to knock on the door if you fall on hard times".
