Sentence examples for practices could have been from inspiring English sources

The question, longtime State Department people say, is not whether these and other political appointees have impressive qualifications, but whether even more talented people — with better language skills, knowledge of local politics and customs, and familiarity with sometimes arcane State Department practices — could have been found within the department.

The results, especially descriptive data regarding transfusion practices, could have been different had the entire transfused sample been included.

Had these five facilitators worked for the entire 13-week flu season, the total training costs would still be $3,883.20, but many more practices could have been involved, thus lowering the per-practice training cost to $28.14 $3,883.20/138 practicess).

Newborn care practices could have been influenced by the community engagement activities done under these and other programmes, mass media messages, other actors, and shifting social and cultural norms, which we were not able to measure and incorporate into these analyses.

Although stressed at the pilot outset, it seems that the learning among the stakeholders was not so well documented or systematically evaluated and shared so that the mainstream practice could have been informed or changed.

Efforts to enable shared conceptual frameworks to emerge through adaptive application of theory in practice could have been balanced with increased effort at the outset for researchers and research users to collaboratively formulate shared research questions, leading to the establishment of teams that could address these questions through cross-mobilisation of interdisciplinary expertise.

That suggests this practice could have been pretty widespread.

The practice could have been going on since the facility opened in 1967 until 2011.

However, the office in collaboration with the Regional Health Research Laboratory should undertake a regular quality control program, so that problem associated with poor laboratory practice could have been identified.

However, with the capacity of the DASS to detect mild cases of depression, these women, in practice, could have been attended to, and followed up for worsening symptomatology by the application of the DASS-21 over time.

It was positive in the sense that the asylum seekers had access to general practice care (and we know that they were very satisfied with that care) but it was problematic because, with almost a 'twist of fate,' their experience of general practice could have been radically different.