Sentence examples for discreet practice from inspiring English sources

The discreet practice of re-gifting, it seems, is as old as the hills.

But European companies were always as discreet about the practice as possible.

Among blue-state social liberals, commitment to the institution of marriage tends to be unspoken or discreet, but marriage in practice typically works pretty well.

In the Lair of Dragon Skulls, cheerful Bronn leads Jaime into what he says will be a discreet place for sparring practice.

MSF learned some hard lessons during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda: it was forced to pool its efforts with the Red Cross and both bodies saw many staff members killed.While the MSF's early rhetoric of political engagement has been tempered by reality, the Red Cross's practice of discreet silence, even in the face of terrible atrocities, has also become harder to maintain.

People will try to tell you that cruising is a thing of the past, but especially for closeted and "discreet" gay men, the practice has never died.

As befits a Wall Street firm practiced in the discreet accumulation of wealth, it wants the record, but it doesn't really want anyone to know about it.

In practice, the commission applied discreet pressure on mandatory governments to pay more attention to what they were doing in their territories.

Discreet tinting of photographic images was already practiced in the West, and Beato had experimented with it in Istanbul.

In Hastings's view, Lang was probably more sympathetic to Rome than any other Church of England archbishop of modern times, responsible for a discreet catholicisation of the Church of England's practices.

Quality assessment using discreet performance measures is rapidly expanding in clinical practice.