But democracy is seldom practiced within the political parties themselves, where candidacies are doled out as spoils with an eye toward preserving power at the top.
"And then, of course," Mr. Payne added, "the doctors involved, have they always practiced within the bounds of legitimate medical treatment, what's the doctor-patient relationship".
Collective leadership is practiced within the Politburo in part to prevent the type of the personality cult we witnessed during the Cultural Revolution.
By the time this luxury item emerged from an imperial atelier in the fifth or sixth century, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism and Manichaeism were all practiced within the empire, contributing to its visual eclecticism.
It has elsewhere been suggested that, even though songwriters didn't generally dwell on such subjects back in 1957, these lyrics may refer to homosexual acts practiced within the walls of American penitentiaries.
Female genital mutilation, which affects ninety per cent of girls and women in countries like Somalia and Egypt, is now practiced within the diaspora here, despite a ban dating from the Clinton Presidency.
