Sentence examples for official practices from inspiring English sources

In this picaresque romance, he used sharp and effective satire to attack the corrupt official practices and personalities that he had observed throughout his life.

Two years later, Fan Zhongyan, a government official, was banished at the insistence of an imperial counselor for speaking out against certain official practices and institutions; Ouyang immediately defended Fan and attacked the counselor in writing.

They "have been subject to vicious murders at the hands of terrorist groups, forced out of their ancestral lands by civil wars, suffered societal intolerance fomented by Islamist groups, and subjected to institutional discrimination found in the legal codes and official practices of many Middle Eastern countries," as several fellows at the Center for American Progress put it.

(The 31-year vet was removed from the local Homeland Security branch and SWAT team and chided for breaching official practices of political neutrality).

Here we stand, thousands of years from the world in which this text came into being--and still we grapple with official practices that demean and dehumanize women.

Now neither Patterson nor Liston even has an official, practicing manager.

(Of the three, the church only recognises E-meter sessions as official practice).

Under the new program, those people will be introduced to the G.E.D. and given an official practice test.

At his first official practice with Carroll, Lysacek recalls trying to master the triple flip, a jump with three rotations.

When pitchers and catchers hold their first official practice on Thursday, Orlando Hernández will be one of six starting pitchers.

At the athletic complex, hockey players work out informally in anticipation of official practice, which begins late next week.