Sentence examples for barbarous practice from inspiring English sources

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a 19th-century cereal magnate and health proselytizer, set off a widespread anti-corset movement by describing the garments as a "barbarous practice" that caused "painful menstrual derangements".

In a recent interview, Michael Frayn said it was "particularly depressing" to learn 35 years later that the American edition of his comic novel "Against Entropy" hawked True cigarettes, calling the ads "a barbarous practice".

The EU's moratorium should have prompted a pause for thought over the barbarous practice of state execution.

But by the beginning of the 1600s, public displays of wealth came to an end as the elite Filipinos were forced to relinquish their gold to the Spanish conquistadors, who, as they did among the Maya, saw tooth modification as a "barbarous practice". "Whoever files his teeth I will surely punish," Father Buenaventura wrote in Vocabulario.

But by the beginning of the 1600s, public displays of wealth came to an end as the elite Filipinos were forced to relinquish their gold to the Spanish conquistadors, who, as they did among the Maya, saw tooth modification as a "barbarous practice".

For while it may be true that people knew, in a slightly pallid sense, the arguments against their barbarous practices long before they felt motivated enough to change them, it is also true that the channels of respect and disrespect operating in a society at any time are themselves moral: they are concerned with how it is fitting, or demeaning, or proper, or shameful to behave.

An editorial in The Nation pointed out, "He is an outspoken apologist for the barbarous practices of right-wing dictatorships".

An editorial in The Nation pointed out, "He is an outspoken apologist for the barbarous practices of right-wing dictatorships". In the 1970s, Congress had played a leading role in U.S. human rights policy.

Taking scripture seriously means acknowledging that there are texts that have been used in dangerous and harmful ways to subjugate women, legitimate violence against gays and lesbians, foster suspicion of other religious traditions, commit violence, and support barbarous ancient practices such as slavery.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s the Cornish language was likewise invisible, a barbarous and long-vanished practice, like piracy and smuggling.

This "sap and needling" is a barbarous thing no longer practiced, but as a consequence of living in that period, many of us here in Seattle have wide-mouth Nalgenes that, while excellent, tend to spill on your face while you drink.