Sentence examples for one-time practice from inspiring English sources

While noise pollution from motorboats may contribute, the main culprits are a sharp drop in salmon, their favorite food; the one-time practice of capturing whales here for aquariums; and man-made toxins.

"Spinning", Wall Street's one-time practice of making pre-IPO stock available to senior execs at client companies, was legal until 2003.

Yet, like breathing, it isn't a one-time practice.

That one time practice made perfect.

An investigation into the National Football League's drug policy by a Senate caucus on drug control found indications that the league at one time practiced a policy of allowing star players to escape punishment from failed drug tests while lower-tier players did not.

The first paragraph of the story reported that the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control "found" indications that the National Football League had at one time practiced a policy of allowing star players to escape punishment from failed drug tests while lower-tier players did not.

On a final point, assessment of fetal growth with a one-time measurement remains standard clinical practice, despite recognition that a single measurement can indicate only size.

For example, similar to the case of the composite vaccination program costs described previously, we relied on standardized assumptions on medical utilization practices (e.g., one-time outpatient visit plus a 3-day admission for treating severe rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization) when calculating the costs to treat diseases caused by the two pathogens in each country.

The company did not provide details of the transaction to investors or account for it as a one-time gain, as is the practice.

This suggests that the current practice of one-time fixed incentive ($/kW) favors investment in capacity with no incentive for utilization (unlike a production credit which incentivizes generation $/kW h).

The key space of the method depends on the number of non-zero coefficients in the code stream (M n i ) and is upper bounded by 2 M n i in case a one-time pad is used; in practice, the key space is determined by the key space k of the technique used to encrypt the sign bits.