"accumulate practice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to mean the act of gradually gathering or acquiring experience, knowledge, or skill in a certain activity or subject. Example: "In order to become a proficient pianist, one must accumulate practice over time by regularly playing and learning new pieces."
The real work is the complete activity, the accumulated practice, the total summing up of tradition and ideas.
In A Healing Family, you quote Flannery O'Connor when she speaks of the novelist's habit, the accumulated practice.
Allan Dobbins Homewood, Ala., July 15 , 2008 To the Editor: At the end of his column, David Brooks draws the following conclusion: "The best political actions are incremental, respectful toward accumulated practice and more attuned to particular circumstances than universal laws".
Of the many studies they found, 88 met specific criteria, including a measure of accumulated practice and a measure of performance, and an estimate of the magnitude of the observed effect.
I respectfully disagree, and would cite the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the civil rights movement as just three examples in which dramatic political action largely disrespectful to accumulated practice and highly attuned to their particular circumstances changed our country and the world for the better.
This age of tremendous scientific achievement has underlined an ancient philosophic truth — that there are severe limits to what we know and can know; that the best political actions are incremental, respectful toward accumulated practice and more attuned to particular circumstances than universal laws.
Considering that the golf handicap strongly depends on the amount of accumulated practice (total practice time in years or months), the current finding supports the idea that neuroanatomical changes are induced by intensive golf practice.
As this knowledge accumulates, practice guidelines, competency frameworks, policies and professional education initiatives could be updated to reflect the realities and ethics of practitioners' everyday acts of health advocacy in the pediatric context.
Finally, the profitability of CSR investments in French firms seems to rely on a specific qualitative mix of different CSR dimensions rather than a pure quantitative approach accumulating practices without designing a consistent set of interactions among them.
Since the launch of "the first civil litigation case of environmental public interest in China" in September 2011, Friends of Nature began to accumulate judicial practice experience.
