Sentence examples for defines the practice from inspiring English sources

Mr. Lynch said the new law "defines the practice as requiring a specific number of police actions within a prescribed period".

Extreme sensory denial defines the practice of animal hoarding, in which people keep far more pets than they can care for — dozens, scores, hundreds of cats, rodents, ferrets, turtles.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child's Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography defines the practice as "the act of obtaining, procuring or offering the services of a child or inducing a child to perform sexual acts for any form of compensation or reward".

And in the 1980s, the military dictator Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq passed punitive laws that defined the practice of the Ahmadi faith as a "blasphemous" criminal offense.

Such sites stretch users' consent beyond any recognition, argues Seth Godin, a former Yahoo executive, who coined the term "permission marketing" to define the practice of sending e-mail marketing to people who ask for it.

There is already a new phrase entering the media lexicon to define the practice of allowing a rival to land a scoop that you have known about for weeks: "Doing a Susan".

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police, the force investigating the matter, said it was defining the practice as "the illegal interception of messages relayed by telecommunications that were not intended for the person who has intercepted them," without providing specifics.

Ms Shah said it was important not to define the practice, under which teenage girls and also boys are coerced into marriages abroad before being returned to Britain with their spouses, as driven by religion.

National boundaries will continue to be important, but as restraints on the practice of management, not in defining the practice.

EuSEM has defined the practice of EM as encompassing prehospital and inhospital triage, resuscitation, initial assessment, and management of undifferentiated urgent and emergency cases.

Malhotra's three principles, and their many supporting strategies, are likely to define the practice of negotiation for years to come.