Sentence examples for it is accepted practice from inspiring English sources

While any arrangement that cuts out the dealer would raise eyebrows in the mainstream art world, it is accepted practice out West.

(Votes in Nigeria's new democracy are cheap, and it is accepted practice that candidates pay off local chiefs, who then deliver their people).

The underlying data from many countries are missing or unreliable, so it is accepted practice for number-crunchers to use computer modelling to fill in the blanks.

It is accepted practice for underwriters to try to gauge the market for new offerings, and that includes seeking to learn the maximum price buyers would pay and whether they planned to hold the shares or sell them quickly.

It is accepted practice, he said, for schools to commandeer gymnasiums and auditoriums as classroom space, then erase their original purpose from the record, trumpeting an expansion of "capacity" rather than a reduction in resources.

This is Messi's time in the sport, and since he scores in every game, every week, it is accepted practice for the world's most famous soccer player to cross himself and raise his two index fingers to the sky.

Promontory said it was "accepted practice in the industry" to employ "third-party personnel".

It was accepted practice, part of a nightly game, and the reason why some papers produced so-called spoof first editions to try to protect their exclusives.

But by the 20th century it was accepted practice for both men and women to buy something that they had no intention of wearing again.

John Hartigan, chairman and chief executive of News Ltd, described Gillard's comments as "pedantic" and "disappointing", and said it was accepted practice not to seek comment for opinion pieces.

Bob Greenbaum, a real estate attorney in Woodbridge whose firm represents many developers, including Toll Brothers, said it was accepted practice to meet with town professionals and even some elected officials before a formal presentation of a proposal, but that no agreements should be struck in private.