Sentence examples for odious practices from inspiring English sources
Mr. Bradbury, however, continues to defend his cynical memos, and the odious practices they blessed.
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.
Although it is common to invoke human dignity in condemning a wide range of nefarious and odious practices, proponents of human dignity are notoriously vague both on the general principles generated by human dignity and on how those principles tell against the activities in question (Macklin 2003).
The odious practices of profiling and group surveillance treat us, instead, as suspects.
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.
"We are specifically concerned as to whether the extent and breadth of the practice is fully known, and whether this odious practice is ongoing within the construction industry," Davidson added.
