Sentence examples for commonly accepted practice from inspiring English sources
Accepting gifts is an illegal, though commonly accepted, practice among police officers, prosecutors and judges.
The 'polluters pays' principle is the commonly accepted practice that those who produce pollution should bear the costs of managing it to prevent damage to human health or the environment.
"It's a commonly accepted practice: one afflicts one's own body as a sign of identifying with the pain of another," said Balfour Brickner, rabbi emeritus at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan.
The commonly accepted practice, when a man has an idea for collecting other peoples published works into a volume, is for him to write his authors inviting them into the book and, if he mentions the subject of pay at all, offering to settle out of court, so to speak, for a small sum.
If you are uncomfortable being nude, using a towel to cover up is a commonly accepted practice.
Another commonly accepted practice is to approximate a weighted sum of chi-square variables by a single one with different degrees of freedom and an adequate scaling factor.
At the first level, each person grasps that a society's basic structure is justified in terms of commonly accepted practices of inquiry and reasoning.
In response to this the Mādhyamika might want to make the point that it is at least sometimes advantageous to treat truths as if they had a more than conventional grounding, that is as if they were not just the product of agreement with commonly accepted practices and conventions.
Screening for cervical, breast and colorectal cancer (CRC) using the Papanicolaou (Pap) test, mammography, and the fecal occult blood test (FOBT) respectively are commonly accepted practices in primary care in Canada.
