Sentence examples for first practised from inspiring English sources

The task was first practised and executed with the index finger of the non-preferred hand, thereafter practised and executed with the index finger of the preferred hand.

It has been a popular pastime for centuries: it was first practised by stone age tribes using poles and nets.

Eagleton went on to Amherst College, Massachusetts, served in the US navy and spent some time at Oxford before going to the Harvard Law School, and first practised law in partnership with his father.

The US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, where many of the techniques that migrated to Iraq were first practised, has not gained anywhere near as much attention, because no photos of conditions in the prison have ever been released.

They worry about selling them later the price they pay for enjoying economies of scale in the manufacturing process.Mass production is based on the principles of specialisation and division of labour as first described by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776, and as first practised in places like Eli Whitney's gun factory in America in the 1790s.

Methodism was first practised in the area in 1784, by the notable preacher Matthew Mayer.

Swimming is the second most practised sport.

But the Kouachi brothers did not kill Charlie Hebdo's staff because they disagreed with French immigrant policy; they did it because they believed Islam ought to be beyond the bounds of satire, and this letter's signatories seem to agree.Islam is the second-most-practised religion in both France and the world.

During his decade at the Treasury, Mr Brown at first both professed and practised prudence, but he then embarked unwisely on a prolonged public-spending spree that involved heavy borrowing.Even allowing for the fact that Britain's budget was already in deficit in 2007, its deterioration by 2010 is also set to be the G7's biggest.

This activity was perceived to support preparedness for clinical practice: ' I feel better prepared for my first real patient having practised skills on deceased people'.

She likes to joke that by the fourth, she was so practised at handling babies, she could spin them like basketballs.