Sentence examples for practiced a double from inspiring English sources

The suggestion that Sulzberger may have practiced a double standard in pay must be especially painful for him.

He also declared that the West practiced a "double standard," condemning terrorism at home but calling it "democracy and freedom" in Syria.

Like the Tibetans last year, Uighurs have complained that the government has practiced a double standard in how it deals with the perpetrators of violence -- detaining Uighurs in large numbers, while allowing Han Chinese to go free.

Last year, during training, he broke his leg while practicing a double back flip into a large foam pit.

The Syrian representative, speaking for the first time since his country assumed one of the rotating seats on the 15-member Council, said the body was practicing a double standard in not denouncing Israel's actions against the Palestinians.

Metalworking News, a weekly magazine covering the machine tool industry, in April published several unattributed quotes from machine tool manufacturers criticizing Chrysler for practicing a "double standard" by ordering Komatsu presses for the Bramalea plant.

In our case, my son, a frequent freestyle skier in the wintertime, was practicing a double back flip on an indoor trampoline in July when he landed off balance and torqued his left knee.

Is Gov. Barbour practicing a double standard or does he simply want to create an unhealthy environment in any state other than his own?

"Failed their families, their heritage, their country and they have failed their land". Fonda accused President Reagan of practicing "a double standard" that offers more in subsidies to defense contractors than to farmers and better breaks to those who invest in farming as a tax shelter than to those for whom it is their livelihood.

Bright sent a buzz through the snowboarding world in recent weeks when she announced she had been practicing a double-cork 900, which no woman has landed.

Torah Bright of Australia, a strong contender for an Olympic medal in the women's halfpipe, sent a buzz through the snowboarding world in recent weeks when she announced that she had been practicing a double-cork 900 — an off-axis spin of two and a half rotations that has never been landed in competition by a woman.