Sentence examples for practice which in from inspiring English sources

In order to define the uniformity of time, that is, the notion of equal intervals of time, Aristotle was guided by astronomical practice, which in antiquity provided the most practical and accurate measures of time.

The camp program is organized like many others, with activity periods during the day for sports including wheelchair tennis and basketball, sailing, music and drama programs and computer practice, which in recent years has become an increasingly popular activity.

In short, it is a practice which, in our judgment, would soon lead to a loss of confidence in a police force's ability to investigate crime objectively and impartially".

At Davis Polk, Mr. Andres will join the prestigious white-collar defense practice, which in 2009 hired Linda Chatman Thomsen, the former head of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

His friends, he writes, had cocooned themselves inside an insular world of all-conservative media, a practice which in the long run led them to lose track of reality and to be beaten in two consecutive presidential elections.

In 1657 a ministerial convention suggested that such children should be accepted for baptism and church membership, and in 1662 a synod of the churches accepted the practice, which in the 19th century came to be called the Half-Way Covenant.

The OFT said its own investigation found "widespread examples of Groupon's practices which, in the OFT's view, breached consumer protection regulations".

But if the robes turn white, revealed the novelist, "this is an indication that the student has betrayed the Japanese wizard's code and adopted illegal practices (which in Europe we call 'Dark' magic)".

The lawmakers asked the Justice Department to conduct a civil rights investigation of the sheriff's practices, which in the past year have drawn complaints from civil libertarians and Mayor Phil Gordon of Phoenix.

In the early 21st century, however, an increased need for medicines generally resulted in renewed interest in natural-products drug discovery and in unorthodox medical practices, which in turn led to a rise in the clinical exploration of various CAM therapies.

It would replace current practices, which in many districts across the country are lax, haphazard and, in the words of Ms. Weingarten and others, often amount to little more than "drive-by" evaluations.