Sentence examples for century of practice from inspiring English sources

"I could have sued," said her husband, his comic timing sharpened by nearly a century of practice.

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).

It asks them, in the name of the rational man agement of economic affairs, to abandon modes of thought and action — indeed, a whole mystique built up over a century of practice.

It leads to the Citizens United decision (which Will supports as emphatically as I oppose it) that overthrew decades of precedent and a century of practice involving limits on the power of big money in politics; to the Supreme Court's evisceration of the Voting Rights Act; and to the scrapping of all manner of legislation aimed at protecting workers' rights, the environment and consumers.

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

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.

IT was an unusual commission, unlike anything that Stuart Silk, a Seattle architect, had been offered in his quarter-century of practice: design three high-end custom homes for clients he would never meet.

This goes against centuries of practice regarding creditor repayment hierarchy.

Consider Disciplinary Context - Every discipline has developed conventions and assumptions over decades and centuries of practice.

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