Sentence examples for distinctive practices from inspiring English sources

Although the church has always seen itself as Christian, she said, its image has been "cloaked" by distinctive practices -- like building temples, as Mormons still do; referring to members as "the gathering of Israel," as church leaders once did; and, most controversially, sanctioning polygamy, which the church ended more than a century ago.

Like their American cousins, gang members like this have gradually abandoned some once distinctive practices like chopping off their pinkies during initiations or styling their hair in bouffant waves and moved out of blatantly illegal lines of work like low-level prostitution.

Thus, in general, 'mysticism' would best be thought of as a constellation of distinctive practices, discourses, texts, institutions, traditions, and experiences aimed at human transformation, variously defined in different traditions.

The French term moeurs or what today would be called culture captures the idea that the humanity of human beings is expressed in the distinctive practices that they adopt as solutions to the challenges of existence.

The justifications for special protections for minority cultural groups discussed above still hold, even in the face of a more cosmopolitan view of cultures, for the aim of group-differentiated rights is to empower members of minority groups to continue their distinctive practices if they wish to.

At the same time, argues Stone, transsexuals have also developed their own subcultures as well as distinctive practices within those subcultures that entirely run against the official account of transsexuality (such as helping each other know what to say and how to act in order to get medically designated as a transsexual) (291 2).

The local inhabitants, whose distinctive practice is indicated by their name, invited Odysseus' scouts to eat of the mysterious plant.

Poch'ŏngyo, (Korean: "Universal Religion"), indigenous Korean religion, also popularly called Humch'igyo from the distinctive practice of chanting humch'i, a word said to have mystical significance.

In this paper we outline a distinctive practice theory approach to considering the role of management accounting in the constitution of organizations.

As recently as the 1960s, Barbados was home to a distinctive practice, in which scrubbers traveled from house to house singing hymns and receiving rewards from households.

Moreover, since the number of practices included in our dataset is relatively large, it seems unlikely that our results are biased by distinctive practice characteristics or consultation behaviour, i.e. "random effects" of some practices or patients.