Sentence examples for dismal practice from inspiring English sources

Following the dismal practice of Pakistan's previous military dictators, General Musharraf has appointed himself president and raised concerns that he intends to rule from that position even if an elected Parliament and prime minister take office in 2002.

There is nothing inherently wrong with traveling to a nation that engages in dismal practices.

David A. Harris Executive Director American Jewish Committee New York When Randy Cohen's flippantly comments that "there is nothing inherently wrong with traveling to a nation that engages in dismal practices.

I also disagree with the notion that "there is nothing inherently wrong with traveling to a nation that engages in dismal practices".

The head of the Federal Reserve bureaucracy should become familiar with its dismal practices.

Her book chronicles what she depicts as the generally dismal war practiced by educational theorists in the 20th century against high academic standards.

If you're in a state as ridden with corruption and dismal political practices as this one, it often does seem that the prosecutors are the only ones who can get anything done.

Economics, the dismal science, practiced this for four decades through 2000 with a defense of the Efficient Market Hypothesis.

And as the time it takes to complete a degree and get a first job increase and the complaints about perceived subjectivity and dismal employment practices grow louder, Butz says that the rewards and satisfactions of a career in science become increasingly unattractive relative to the costs to prepare for it.

The diagnosis of glioblastoma remains one of the most dismal in medical practice, with current standard care only providing a median survival of 14.6 months.

Under that approach, the administration would not only ask North Korea to forswear efforts to make weapons of mass destruction; it would also ask it to reform its dismal human rights practices and to begin withdrawing conventional forces that are deployed near the demilitarized zone with South Korea and which threaten Seoul.