Sentence examples for origin of the practice from inspiring English sources

The exact origin of the practice is unknown.

THE origin of the practice of infusing the leaves of the ilex is very obscure.

The origin of the practice is unknown, although the widespread distribution of circumcision as a ritual suggests great antiquity.

The origin of the practice in Germany in the early 20th century coincided with a rebellion against the rigid moral attitudes of the late 19th century.

Focusing on the two municipalities in which the girls died, public health officials, human rights defenders and the UN scrambled to find the origin of the practice and stop it.

The origin of the practice is unclear - padlocks have appeared in China for years at sacred sites, and there was a flurry of padlocking in the Hungarian town of Pecs in the 1980s, when university students locked them on a bridge next to the university either as a symbol of undying love or their determination to finish their courses.

The Merina legend of the origin of this practice was recorded in the 19th-century collection of Merina andriana oral history and genealogy entitled Tantara ny Andriana eto Madagasikara.

Known among the Emberá as curación, the origins of the practice in Colombia are the subject of various theories.

An article in Science Times on Tuesday about brain images of people speaking in tongues misstated the origins of the practice in America.

The origins of the practice are lost in the misty past, but records of competitions go back to the mid-18th century.

For good or ill, recess appointments have been around in every era since the beginning of the Republic, but Scalia's reading of the eighteenth-century origins of the practice convinces him that they simply should not exist.