Sentence examples for centuries of practice from inspiring English sources

This goes against centuries of practice regarding creditor repayment hierarchy.

Verdict Moon's painting is far richer; the Fool is still learning and has centuries of practice to go.

After so many centuries of practice, modern Italians have buffalo dairying down to a science: animal genetics, human expertise, farming infrastructure — it's all in place and perfectly integrated.

Yet after centuries of practice by millions of people, how could this bag not be filled with gems and gimmicks, treasures and trash?

His argument met an unexpectedly skeptical response from Justice O'Connor, who said: "Well, but of course, there's been a couple of centuries of practice in this country of not funding religious instruction by tax money".

"This is an extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab by President Obama that defies centuries of practice and the legal advice of his own Justice Department," the House speaker, John A. Boehner, said in a prepared statement.

Fine, so maybe the original yogis didn't anticipate an equine element, but after centuries of practicing, offshoots were to be expected -- weird and controversial as those offshoots might be.

After a half-century of practice, Philip Johnson would seem to be the architect least in need of an out-of-town tryout.

He said central banks were turning back to gold purchases in line with a century of practice between 1870 and 1970.

I wanted to get More4's 50 Years of Bad Sex with Jacques Peretti because it sounded like such an ordeal (you'd think Jacques would have got better, in the sacques, after a half century of practice).

As a criminal defense lawyer with a quarter-century of practice in the federal courts, I and my fellow lawyers are not sanguine about any long-term reform of the bureau.