Sentence examples for combat the practice from inspiring English sources

In an effort to combat the practice, Scribd will use the digital files of Simon & Schuster's books to find and remove unauthorized copies from its site.

Fear of exposure may bring plagiarism rates down, but the only way to really combat the practice, said Dr. Hazelkorn, is to convince students that it is wrong.

Last week the government introduced a series of measures in an attempt to combat the practice, including the mandatory recording of FGM in hospitals, money for publicity campaigns and a NSPCC helpline and global funding.

Child marriage in Bangladesh could drop by up to one-third if girls receive educational support or skills training, according to a study looking at ways to combat the practice in a country with one of the highest prevalence rates.

More than 30 acts of sabotage against genetic research have been reported in the last year, according to both law enforcement officials trying to combat the practice and radical groups that encourage it.

In a bid to combat the practice more effectively, the government began considering various legal proposals in 2009, including an amendment to the country's penal code to explicitly mention honor killings.

Does Mr. Husock remember what our city looked like before the Community Reinvestment Act was passed in 1977 to combat redlining, the practice by which banks would take deposits from low-income and minority communities but not make loans there?

Some of the activists who gathered here in the Ethiopian capital today to combat the traditional practice of genital cutting had had the procedure performed on them when they were girls.

Federal agencies like the FDA and CDC echo these concerns and this year both launched efforts to combat the growing practice of vaping.

The law, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), applies to any hospital receiving funds under Medicare or Medicaid (effectively, all of them) and was signed into law by President Reagan to combat the widespread practice of "patient dumping" -- hospitals' refusal to treat low-income and uninsured patients who need emergency care.

Our intervention was theoretically matched to known risk factors, and we attempted to combat the common practice of diluting the intervention by delivery from trained and supervised clinical psychologists, in one to one sessions, and at a credible dose.