Sentence examples for practice of shunning from inspiring English sources

But job counselors worry that the practice of shunning those with poor credit may be unfair and trap the unemployed — who may be battling foreclosure, living off credit cards and confronting personal bankruptcy — in a financial death spiral: the worse their debts, the harder it is to get a job to pay them off.

Lost No. 1 spot in PC market to Hewlett-Packard last year as company's long-standing practice of shunning retail outlets and selling desktop PCs directly to customers over the phone or Internet floundered.

Lost No. 1 spot in PC market to Hewlett-Packard in 2006 as company's long-standing practice of shunning retail outlets and selling desktop PCs directly to customers over the phone or Internet floundered.

The practice of shunning may also serve to deter other members from dissident behavior.

At the AIDS clinic, General Powell posed for photographs with two small children infected with H.I.V. -- a conscious effort to counter the widespread practice in South Africa of shunning people infected with the virus or those with AIDS, even those related by blood.

JW's practice a type of shunning they used to call "Disfellowshipping".

The immediate cause for this souring was the city's decision to lay off 905 workers at city-owned hospitals -- a move that labor leaders saw as a sharp reversal of Mr. Giuliani's practice of largely shunning layoffs during his first four years in office.

GENEVA — Israel became the first country to withhold cooperation from a United Nations review of its human rights practices on Tuesday, shunning efforts by the United States and others to encourage it to participate.

The loan of a consultant to a client was nothing new for Bain (according to Bill Bain, it has been done a dozen times), though the practice is shunned by most other firms.

That ethos quickly gave way to the modern science of archaeology, which developed a set of ethics and practices that shunned its exploitative roots.

"Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road" ("Being a Patient" series, front page, Aug. 14) describes an alarming crisis in American medicine: medical students are increasingly shunning the practice of general medicine.