Sentence examples for practice of quoting from inspiring English sources

This practice of quoting documents to support historians' claims, universal today, was controversial at the time.

Mr. B.'s sense of reliving the past was analogous to his practice of quoting other men's sayings or speaking their thoughts in his own words.

The answer is also aggressive reporting that does not confuse fairness with the unsatisfactory practice of quoting one strident voice and then its opposite in every story.

Authors taking a similar approach developed, for safety's sake, the practice of quoting passages from the Roman historian Tacitus (ad 56 120)—thus becoming known as "Tacitists"—when they might just as well have cited Machiavelli.

The following account from the Yuanshi ("History of the Yuan Dynasty") of the total lunar eclipse of May 19 , 1277 follows the customary practice of quoting timings in double hours (12 to a combined day and night) and marks (each equal to 1/100 of a day and night, or 0.24 hour): 14th year of the Zhiyuan reign period, 4th month, day guiyou [the 10th cyclical day], full Moon.

That game ended when the Securities & Exchange Commission ordered broad reforms, including scrapping the antique practice of quoting prices in eighths of a dollar.

Like other journalists who write about Washington and presidential politics, Mr. Lewis said that he had to submit to the widespread but rarely disclosed practice of quote approval.

Soon after the practice of quote approval was made public in July in a Times article by Jeremy Peters, other publications pushed back.

We develop a method to study distant and asynchronous collaborative design activity based on an analysis of quoting practices.

Samuel Johnson once cautioned against the practice of "recommending" Shakespeare through the greatest-hits approach of quoting selected passages.

He is fond of quoting the philosophers.