There are cogent arguments: Paul Oestreicher makes a good case for saying that state terrorism (as practised, say, by Israel) should be outlawed.
But to ask for the Ponte dei Giocattoli (as a result of the craft that was practised there), says everything.
Sufism has been widely practised in Pakistan for hundreds of years - analysts saying it has a much bigger following than the hard-line Taliban version of Islam.
"He is a practised and persistent fraudster," said Mr Bosomworth.
"Stand by for the ultimate Sat Nav," he said with practised ease when I rang in a familiar state of navigational bewilderment.
Turkmenistan's president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, is "vain, suspicious, guarded, strict, very conservative", a "micro-manager" and "a practised liar", US diplomats say.
Thorne and Blincoe surely know that the contemporary short story since Raymond Carver - and as practised most recently by, say, Junot Diaz - has been quick, short, skinned and generally New Puritanical.
On this action, however, Victoria and her fellow climbers took matters into their own hands: "We got together and modified our clothes with Velcro and stuff," she says, and practised beforehand using Shewees.
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is "vain, suspicious, guarded, strict, very conservative", a "micro-manager" and "a practised liar", US diplomats say, in a stunningly unflattering portrait of Turkmenistan's head of state In the diplomatic equivalent of a mauling, the US embassy gives a brutal assessment of the president's talents, and those of his ruling family.
Next you'll be saying that ear piercing or having droopy eyelids raised is "mutilation".You also seem bewildered by the fact that the "fad" of infant circumcision is still widely practised in America.
