Sentence examples for insidious practice from inspiring English sources

I'm glad The Times has made this move; quote approval was an insidious practice that had to end.

It is time to end the insidious practice of dumbing down academic standards — and lying to students about their readiness for college and careers.

It is this insidious practice of adding sugar to foods in which one would least expect to find it that makes it so difficult to escape it, no matter how hard one tries.

"We need to stop the insidious practice of insider trading, giving members of this body an unfair advantage over Americans who sent us here to represent them," said Representative Kathy Hochul, Democrat of New York.

That a document that he prepared properly was leaked, I find terribly offensive". But even as the President called the leak "an insidious practice," a struggle over the Administration's environmental policy grew sharper as Mr. Reilly fought back.

I have worked in prison-to-work rehabilitation and I know that the insidious practice of referring to people — no matter how long ago their crimes occurred — as "killers" or "illegal aliens" steps beyond semantics and reduces these human beings to the law they have broken.

It is these sorts of insidious practices that the school admissions code was set up to counter.

In fact, some of the most insidious practices from the Enron era (notably, disguising financial weakness with off-balance-sheet debt) were front and center again during the global financial crisis of 2008.

With Jim Crow in the South this set of insidious practices was not accomplished by explicit laws mandating racial segregation.

But one word is noticeably absent from the whole of the Times's inquiry into the company's insidious practices: union.

Sexist advertising, offensive beer commercials, and the like are nothing new to sporting events, but media coverage of sports encourages gender stereotypes therein with much more subtle and insidious practices.