Sentence examples for nasty practices from inspiring English sources

In real life he sometimes finds the relationship between animals and human beings cruelly bewildering — not long ago he rescued a mouse that was floundering in his pool, only to see it scamper straight into a mousetrap he had set in his garage — but in his books he manages to reconcile his innate kindheartedness with some of the nasty practices implicit in the survival of the fittest.

(The gist of the piece is that nasty practices like phishing and tax-dodging exist, and someone will find a way to apply them to REDD, so REDD is bad).

There would have been much less "tariff escalation"—a nasty practice, by which higher tariffs are levied on successive stages of production.

She also claimed that firms have agreed not to drop children with "pre-existing conditions" (a nasty practice that, for adults, will be banned from 2014 .The insurance industry, meanwhile, is in a fighting mood about another measure that cuts deep into its profits.

But because there is that competition and because there are so many options (some clearly better than others), there is this nasty practice of undercutting going on.

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that North Carolina's gerrymandering techniques when it came to the state House and Senate were illegal because they deprived minority voters of power, a nasty practice known as "racial gerrymandering".

Like many of the nastier practices justified in the name or one or other of the world's great religions, "honour killing" has no basis in theology and is unusually horrible.

This means the right must rid itself of its nasty authoritarian practices and mindset, follow in the footsteps of modern conservative parties, and leave behind its fusty, old-fashioned views.

This year, though, the grumbling turned to outrage, the Federal Communications Commission began investigating, and critics began to shine a light on some of the nastiest carrier practices.

Not only did he not bring up Mitt Romney's shocking "47 percent" comment or his nasty offshore banking practices, but he also seemed to have difficulty focusing on the issue at hand.

As well as letting them keep all their earnings, this independence gives them freedom to reject nasty clients and unsafe practices.