Sentence examples for because of a practice from inspiring English sources

We need sex education because of a practice called "seagulling", a boarding school import (what else?) that has spread to some university halls of residence.

Influential bureaucrats tend to side with the nuclear industry — and the promotion of it — because of a practice known as amakudari, or descent from heaven.

The disease recurs here, both she and Mr. Conger said, because of a practice common in cattle drives from just after the Civil War well into the 1890's.

Hospital officials made the admission a day after acknowledging that results of 4,000 of the tests, called echocardiograms, had never been seen by doctors because of a practice of allowing technicians to read them first.

That's because of a practice known as "peer benchmarking" -- a widely used method wherein corporations set pay for their executives at or above the median level of, well, other executives.

A majority of the commission concluded that George W. Bush won Florida, and the presidency, because of "a pattern and practice of injustice, ineptitude and inefficiency" by election officials that denied blacks the right to vote.

The investigation was undertaken because of a new practice by the Bank of Italy.

Stewart, the leader in the points standings, had to start at the back of the field because a practice accident forced him into his backup car.

Meanwhile, right guard Ron Stone, who did not practice Wednesday and Thursday because of a shoulder sprain, practiced today and remained probable.

Because of this practice a central concern for sustainable squid fisheries in California is to determine whether reproductive activities and subsequent egg laying occur at rates that are sufficient to support harvestable populations of this sub-annual species.

Their daughters could not attend because of a shoot-around practice.