Sentence examples for mysterious practice from inspiring English sources

The mix of various forms of compensation makes Ms. Mayer's pay state of the art in employee compensation and a good lesson in this sometime mysterious practice.

But over the course of seven years, he began to learn more about the mysterious practice of affinage, and he gradually determined that Murray's needed to join the monastic fold.

He said, by way of example, that for years a fable had persisted about the mosque, which bears no sign except for the single word "Him" in Arabic calligraphy on its white-clapboard siding: that it is not a mosque at all, but a cult house where mysterious practices occur.

Her empty chair is an emblem of the Supreme Court's sometimes rigorous, sometimes idiosyncratic and often quite mysterious recusal practices.

Though Dr. Nuland's warnings of a tendency to turn to magical thinking seem like that of a worried mother, the fact that many patients today put their faith in unproven and often mysterious alternative practices does support his contention and his concern.

It's an original and mysterious record; it takes practice to sound this spontaneous.

So there is a simmering sense of resentment in the ranks, at all levels, over the cuts and the mysterious leaks about bad practice – the cop who answered a phone call and got four hours' overtime – that appear routinely in the rabid media, alongside similar yarns about town-hall pay and "gold-plated" civil service pensions.

Though the psychological principles of deradicalization (the 3Ns) aren't mysterious, their application in practice requires skill, creativity, and resources.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08417.002 Although perceptual learning has been a phenomenon studied for many decades, the neuronal mechanisms underlying the improvement in sensory discrimination after practice remain mysterious.

The Tiffany artisans may have executed the mysterious piece as freelancers, practicing their skills when metalworkers' unions went on strike.

In this magical realm of undulating creatures and twinkling lights, Ponyo's father, a wizard named Fujimoto (Liam Neeson), practices his mysterious art.