Sentence examples for practiced thousands from inspiring English sources

Terracing, which is basically grading steep land, such as hillsides, into a series of level benches, was known in antiquity and was practiced thousands of years ago in such divergent areas as the Philippines, Peru, and Central Africa.

Many practitioners say the carefully scripted movements allow them to enter a state of deep concentration much like that which athletes describe when they talk of entering the zone--a place where the individual can find freedom, effortlessness and grace within movements that have been practiced thousands and thousands of times.

"It's dozens of moving parts with nothing left to chance because every part has been analyzed, perfected and practiced thousands of times.

But now for the first time an Indian prime minister has endorsed these claims, maintaining that cosmetic surgery and reproductive genetics were practiced thousands of years ago.

Through the practiced eyes of the twenty-eight artists showcased here, streets are threads linking cities and bringing people together yet also tokens of the distances that separate them and consign them to solitude.

And when they weren't traveling, they practiced--eight hours a day, six days a week.

At one point during the preordained throwdown between the two colossi who stride through "Fast Five," Dwayne Johnson rips off his bulletproof vest with the practiced economy of a 17th-century courtesan flinging off her corset.

"If practiced routinely, we would be subjecting hundreds of thousands of innocent people who happen to be relatives of individuals in the FBI database to lifelong genetic surveillance," Tania Simoncelli, science adviser to the American Civil Liberties Union, told The Post at the time.

Until the middle of the 20th century, most Wa practiced slash-and-burn agriculture.

Despite the strictures of the doges, Venetian workmen succumbed to the temptation to carry the secrets of their craft to other cities, and, by the middle of the 17th century, mirror making was practiced extensively in London and Paris.

Enslavement of enemy soldiers in Europe declined during the Middle Ages, but ransoming was widely practiced and continued even as late as the 17th century.