Sentence examples for practices die from inspiring English sources

Also, as Yokosuka shows, old practices die hard.

There, you rightly earned the admiration of No 10 for pushing much needed modernisation in a borough where old practices die hard.

Now it seems that old practices die hard, and that they have infected parts of the PD like a cancer.The devastating impact of corruption allegations on the opposition was highlighted in mid-December, when Mr Berlusconi's party swept to victory in an election in Abruzzo.

This history is also replete with examples of how old practices die hard.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American woman elected to the House of Representatives from Ohio and a leader in the fight against predatory lending practices, died Wednesday.

Edward L. Schempp, a parent whose lawsuit against the required reading of Bible verses in school led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1963 restricting such practices, died on Nov. 8 at a nursing home in Hayward, Calif.

If there were no frictional losses (e.g., air friction, internal friction in the spring material, and friction at the pivots), the balance would swing precisely the same distance to the other side and continue to oscillate indefinitely; because of these losses, however, the oscillations in practice die away.

Patients will be followed up until they leave the practice, die or suffer a TIA (control patients only) or stroke.

The practice died only when the secret ballot introduced in 1890 made it possible for voters to deceive their paymasters.

Worse, the museum's founder, Satoru Kamegai, who bankrolled the operation with money from his private medical practice, died in late July at the age of 94.

MACKOWSKI--John J. Dies at 81. John J. Mackowski, insurance executive and proponent for corporate responsibility and ethical practice, died of lung cancer February 24, at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.