Sentence examples for a worldwide practice from inspiring English sources

A former international executive for Wyeth, the big drug company, uncovered a worldwide practice of cheating foreign governments out of taxes, only to be demoted after notifying senior executives, according to documents in a state lawsuit he filed against the company.

The use of SIPS is now a worldwide practice [21] and an ever increasing number of these schemes are being designed and implemented.

A former international executive for drugmaker Wyeth claims he was demoted after he uncovered a worldwide practice of cheating foreign governments out of taxes and notified executives, The New York Times reported.

Active involvement of patients in decision making for their own medical care, such as deciding whether or not to accept a particular treatment (informed consent), or choosing among medical-care options (informed choice), is becoming a worldwide practice [ 1].

The delay in the surgical approach of UT is a common worldwide practice.

The provision of human-designed floods in regulated rivers is still an incipient worldwide practice.

Geotechnical engineers worldwide practice a variety of in-situ techniques to classify soils in order to obtain their physical and engineering properties.

Arthur C. Erickson is Vancouver's big architectural kahuna, one of a triad of Canadian stars, along with Israeli-born Moishe Safdie (designer of Vancouver's elliptical, technologically advanced, hugely popular new library, which draws 8,000 visitors a day), and Frank O. Gehry, whose worldwide practice is based in California.

Mr. Schechter's film promises more insight than it provides, and those who wonder why a reported 100 million people worldwide practice Falun Gong's combination of exercise and moral philosophy may come away with no more sense of its appeal than they would by listening to the endorsements of the adherents of any set of beliefs.

Limitation of life-sustaining therapy, by either withholding or withdrawing support, is an ethically acceptable and common worldwide practice.

"The dissolution of the worldwide practice would seem a bit premature because there's no proof yet that Andersen is not going to survive this," he said.