Sentence examples for habitual practice of from inspiring English sources

This chilliness is an extension of McEwan's habitual practice of damping down the sensational aspects of his imagined encounters by narrating them in a precise, thoughtful, unsensational way.

The habitual practice of some actors – notably states – of holding information close to their chest and refusing to share it has to stop.

After hearing the testimonies of 35,000 political detainees, an official commission has concluded that torture was a habitual practice of the armed forces and police throughout the dictatorship.The evidence, of course, was always there.

Other major reforms must include guaranteeing the rights of women and girls, ending legal discrimination against all religious groups, including Coptic Christians and Baha'is, and putting a stop to the persecution of gay people (including the practice of charging gay men with the "habitual practice of debauchery").

The sole point was to give cover to our habitual practice of cozying up to despots (especially those who control the oil spigots) and to our own government's embrace of warrantless wiretapping and torture, among other policies that invert our values.

Lévy goes on to question how a chambermaid could have gone alone, "contrary to the habitual practice of most of New York's grand hotels of sending a 'cleaning brigade' of two people, into the room of one of the most closely watched figures on the planet".

Visitors are participants in an experiment which challenges habitual practices of seeing and accords a fresh emphasis to the simple fact of experience".

Khat is an acceptable and habitual practice for these populations, specifically among Muslims [ 12, 13].

Williams, who is now master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, said that while Britain's "cultural memory is still quite strongly Christian", it was post-Christian in that habitual practice across most of the population was not taken for granted.

Now, the same capacity that allows us to turn normative commitments that we reflectively endorse into habitual practices can, of course, be deployed in the reinforcement of habits which we wish to get rid of.

Sunnah, ( Arabic: "habitual practice") also spelled Sunna, the body of traditional social and legal custom and practice of the Islamic community.