Sentence examples for odious practice from inspiring English sources

Vacatur is a common, but odious, practice in the federal courts.

They would have to stop the odious practice of secretly beginning foreclosure proceedings while supposedly working on a mortgage modification.

The decision diminishes any hope that this odious practice will finally receive the legal label it deserves: a violation of international law.

It should not have been hard for Mr. Mukasey to admit that waterboarding — the odious practice of making prisoners believe they are about to be drowned — is torture.

After the action on chrysotile, Jeffrey Simpson, a columnist for The Globe and Mail, wrote: "We mine asbestos, we ship it, we make money from it, and we'll use every diplomatic trick in the book to defend this odious practice.

This time around, states that want federal money will rightly be required to improve teacher effectiveness and to end the odious practice of dumping the least qualified teachers into the neediest schools.

Mr. Bradbury, however, continues to defend his cynical memos, and the odious practices they blessed.

Panelists will weigh the relative merits of working to curb abuses from within government and publicly speaking out against odious practices.

Some provisions restrain genuinely odious practices, such as charging interest on already-paid balances, but others prevent banks from tailoring interest rates to customers' changing risks.The approach to energy is worse.

Now the Brazilian government's intelligence agency is coming under increasingly heavy fire for what appear to be violations of its charter and a return to some of the more odious practices of the past.

A12 Brazil Spy Agency Inquiry The government's intelligence agency is coming under increasingly heavy fire for what appear to be violations of its charter and a return to some of the more odious practices of the past, including spying on political opponents and reporters.