Sentence examples for an uncommon practice from inspiring English sources

It is "by no means an uncommon practice," said Molly Gutierrez, executive director of Physician Hospitals of America, which represents many doctor-owned hospitals.

The victim was 18 when she married a much older man who already had one wife, not an uncommon practice in the rural areas.

John McCain's campaign is being accused of authorizing surrogate signatures — not an uncommon practice — on his book "Faith of My Fathers".

Falwell's fund-raising pitches on television (he makes them himself — an uncommon practice among television evangelists) suggest not General Motors ads but cereal-box-top offers.

And yet, for all its virtues, vasectomy is still an uncommon practice in the developing world and the least known modern method of contraception in poorer countries.

During jury selection, defense lawyers hired psychologists to help them determine who in the jury pool might favor their arguments, an uncommon practice at the time, he said.

In the not so distant past when I was primarily mediating pro bono cases for the Los Angeles Superior Court, I always commenced my mediations in a joint session - an increasingly uncommon practice in the Los Angeles legal market.

The Chinese government does not censor the dispatches of foreign correspondents, but the authorities can express disapproval of a writer's work by withholding visa renewals — a not uncommon practice.

In 391, Augustine was reluctantly ordained as a priest by the congregation of Hippo Regius (a not uncommon practice in Northern Africa), in 395 he was made Bishop, and he died August 430 in Hippo, thirty-five years later, as the Vandals were besieging the gates of the city.

Though the number of people signed up to a cryonics provider is rising, it's still a highly uncommon practice.

You stick money in a bank, but the bank can go under". Though the number of people signed up to a cryonics provider is rising, it's still a highly uncommon practice.