Sentence examples for indian practices from inspiring English sources

The article also gives curious reports of Amazonian Indian practices of management and interchange of germplasm from useful plants.

To prevent conflagrations, the park service creates controlled burns in parts of Yosemite, an echo of Indian practices.

In conversations, King joined in common Indian practices and witnessed how N.E.S Block Workers provided aid to villagers.

One French officer called Indian practices "an abominable kind of war," yet the blood-drenched primitivism of the red — and white — North Americans (the colonials had the bad manners actually to shoot at enemy officers) was the wave of the future.

Many British and American firms have set up "virtual" Indian practices based in London, Dubai, Hong Kong or Singapore, or forged "best friends" alliances with leading domestic firms to refer work in and out of India.Most lawyers agree that it is a question of when, rather than if, the Indian market will be liberalised.

Lord Meghnad Desai is more sympathetic to the Chinese approach; Amartya Sen, even though quite critical of many Indian practices, still sees substantial strength in the Indian system.

Thuggee was a centuries-old Indian practice of robbing travelers by first winning their trust, then asphyxiating them.

The custom can be linked to the outlawed Indian practice suttee, when a wife climbs on a funeral pyre.

Opium smoking began only after the early Europeans in North America discovered the Indian practice of smoking tobacco in pipes.

Officials have been sent to round up volunteers from scores of countries to reinforce the international credentials of the ancient Indian practice.

Yoga, an ancient Indian practice once viewed as only for the very fit and flexible, has become as American an activity as jogging and aerobics.