Sentence examples for drop the practice from inspiring English sources

The most common reason for people to drop the practice of switching sexual identities was that it stopped being interesting or that their curiosity had been satisfied.

He fasted several times during the first three hunting seasons to publicize his opposition, but has decided to drop the practice.

The company, which makes generators, aircraft engines and medical devices, also says it will drop the practice of providing quarterly earnings forecasts going forward, as it expects difficult market conditions to continue in 2009.

The department advised the agency to drop the practice.

To this end, we drop the practice of completing all the gray edges in one supernatural graph before starting another.

Breastfeeding mothers who spoke at the prayer session stressed some of the social and economic challenges that normally force them to drop the practice of exclusive breastfeeding.

Swedish leagues had used shootouts for three seasons before dropping the practice and restoring tie results in 2004.

(Ouisie's Table dropped the practice when oil prices inched back up. As of December 13th, the Wednesday special would have cost $56.60).

Marcus Dairy provides milk in half-gallon glass bottles upon request, but Mountain Dairy dropped the practice when its glass washer wore out.

The anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, author of Death, Grief, and Mourning, conjectures that the first world war was one cause: communities were so overwhelmed by the numbers of dead that they dropped the practice of mourning the individual.

In recent years, other large companies, including Microsoft, General Electric and Accenture Consulting, have dropped the practice — often called stack ranking, or "rank and yank" — in part because it can force managers to get rid of valuable talent just to meet quotas.