Sentence examples for familiar practice from inspiring English sources

OFFSHORING sending businesses to cheaper foreign countries is a familiar practice in manufacturing, software and call centres.

Human rights groups have repeatedly condemned what has become a familiar practice by the Iranian judiciary against prisoners of conscience.

After the lacrosse incident in the Buchanan house, many of the adults at Duke were surprised to learn that the hiring of strippers was a familiar practice.

Lying for Trump has become such a familiar practice in American politics that it would almost certainly have had no impact on the Jackson nomination.

To take this next step always requires at least a little courage, because it goes against familiar practice and predictable financial self-interest.

Although creating individual earth structures is a familiar practice in many areas of the world today, the practice of reshaping the earth to create new human environments is little known.

Until then, pro athletes should heed a clarion call they are intimately familiar with: Practice, practice, practice.

Fremont was among the worst of the subprime offenders, using all the now familiar practices: targeting people with bad credit, ignoring traditional standards for underwriting home loans, paying third-party brokers handsomely to bring in gullible customers, and then infecting the larger financial system by selling off the hazardous loans.

The great enablers in this business are not so much members of the media, who struggle every day between familiar practices and wild times, but the Republican representatives and senators who, by shrugging off the loony on a daily basis, do more than anyone else to make it normal.

Therefore, the exigencies of a few power holders should not supersede the interest of humanity through familiar practices of endorsement of undemocratic governments, not responsive to the will and needs of their people, and application of double and multiple standards of response to incidents around the globe.

In setting that earlier project aside, Habermas adopts a more naturalistic, "postmetaphysical" approach (1992a), characterized by the fallible hermeneutic explication or "reconstruction" of shared competences and normative presuppositions that allow actors to engage in familiar practices of communication, discourse, and inquiry.