Sentence examples for costly practices from inspiring English sources

These techniques help improve soil and alleviate the need for more costly practices, such as applying petroleum-based fertilizer.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Federal Reserve proposed tough credit card rules on Tuesday to protect consumers from potentially costly practices by lenders, and moved to put in place legislation enacted in May.

That meant a costly practice could get prohibitively expensive.

"Training a horse for two years is a costly practice," Andersson said.

Visits by numerous different salesmen to the same doctor have escalated into a costly practice.

Did parents of these children make unwise investments or indulge in the wasteful and costly practice of divorce?

The costly practice of herbicide application did not provide a feasible solution to control further woodland expansion.

Other sacred cows, like the distribution of advance print galleys of coming titles and the costly practice of permitting retailers to return unsold books, are being examined.

The costly practice spread to commercial vessels and disappeared in the mid-1800's, as builders shifted to less expensive copper alloys.

That costly practice started in the late 1700's and ended a few decades later as builders shifted to less expensive copper alloys.

He will also have to limit the costly practice of neighborhood street sweeps in order to pay for new antiterrorism security needs.