Sentence examples for practice laid from inspiring English sources

The use of music in stage plays had become a standard practice in Spain by the late 15th century, and that practice laid the foundation for the emergence of various forms of Spanish musical theatre.

In this exploration of Elizabethan London's burgeoning scientific community, Harkness demonstrates how an assortment of barber-surgeons, midwives, and alchemists who, along with hundreds of laymen and women, took a "vernacular approach to experimental practice" laid the groundwork for the scientific revolution of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Plausible enough on its surface (no one, after all, is obliged to drink liquor), the tax in practice laid oppressive burdens on the settlers of the western frontier, for whom whiskey was the one solidly profitable article of production, grain itself not being economical to ship east over the mountains.

The study was conducted according to the guidelines for good scientific and clinical practice laid down by the Declaration of Helsinki.

In general, most telemedicine operators reported that they comply with regulations of standard medical practice laid down by the Medical Council of India and state regulatory bodies.

True, that is what current law, as opposed to current practice, lays down; but neither is at all likely to happen.

The only way to measure Teixeira's bunt-placement skill is to have him practice laying them down against a shift in spring training, and start counting how often he makes it to first.

Companies may follow practices laid out by the American Association of Tissue Banks, a voluntary organization, or create their own.

The standards board will be expected to ensure that banks adhere to practices laid down by the Indian Banks Association, an industry club.

It found that the programs varied wildly in effectiveness and that most departed significantly from best practices laid out by the addiction research division of the federal Department of Health and Human Services.

Even though calamitous lending practices laid waste to the nation's economy, surprisingly little has changed about how the financial arena operates and is supervised.