Sentence examples for as it was practised from inspiring English sources

Enraged, the Progressive movement grew and took a new look at direct democracy as it was practised in Switzerland, where its use was—and is sparing and effective (even if occasionally controversial, like last month's vote to ban minarets).In 1898 South Dakota became the first state to allow voter initiatives, and others followed, including California in 1911.

A process of consciously engaging with the past – as it was practised in Germany (at least on the surface) – never really happened in Austria.

Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that refugees had not brought terrorism to Germany, and that Islam belonged in the country as long as it was practised in a way that respected the constitution.

"How can I accept a doctrine," he asked, "which sets up as its bible, above and beyond criticism, an obsolete economic textbook which I know to be not only scientifically erroneous but without interest or application for the modern world?" But Keynes was barely more enthusiastic about capitalism as it was practised in the contemporary world.

"We're glad also that the committee are looking at the question of full decriminalisation as it's practised in New Zealand.

What is not yet clear is whether Alsop's problems are simply the product of his flamboyant managerial style or reflect a wider shift in the cultural landscape away from his kind of brash blob-making which suggests that his inspiration lies in the sand pit and the toybox, towards a more lyrical but sober architecture, as it is practised by David Chipperfield.

But the flaws and occasional absurdities of Christianity as it is practised on these shores do not warrant a full-blown culture war of the kind that has coarsened public life in the United States and led to women being arrested for wearing the veil in France.

"It is clearer now than ever that lethal injection, as it is practised in this country, is not working as it was supposed to," he says.

This rational and pragmatic understanding of participatory practice research as it is practised in German-speaking regions today is described in this article as well as in several other publications [17, 20, 21, 22].

In this study we want to evaluate acupuncture as it is practised in Norway.

According to other women, vaginal examination is likened to sexual intercourse and sometimes experienced as rape, especially when it is practised by several doctors, one after the other [ 57].