Sentence examples for defining the practice from inspiring English sources

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.

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

The report also makes some notable recommendations -- to funds, be transparent; to foundations, be bold; to government, be part of it; and to intermediaries, most compellingly, be innovative in aggregating performance data, aligning the buy and sell sides, and creating baseline principles for defining the practice of impact measurement.

There are also suggestions that the lack of a registered list of private patients has the effect of reducing the amount of anticipatory care carried out by GPs due to the difficulty of defining the practice population.

Some method of defining the practice models is needed to capture and measure differences to ensure that interventions are implemented as intended, and to know what is actually being compared.

The effect of the intervention on the primary outcome will be estimated using a non linear mixed model, where the number of referrals per practice will be modelled using Poisson error, and overdispersion (extra Poissonian variability) will be accounted for by defining the practice as a random effect [ 46].

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.

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

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".

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.