Sentence examples for practised to be from inspiring English sources

The sewing is a craft that has to be much practised to be perfect, which is why the house of Dior so values the petites mains ("little hands") who toil away in the studio above the Paris flagship store on Avenue Montaigne.Cheap at the priceThe commercial point of it all is that haute couture is every traditional fashion house's loss-leader.

But reading the Qur'an carefully, it is perfectly clear that the sort of disgusting mass industrialised food production that is widely practised ought not to be regarded as halal compliant.

"Self-reliance" as practised in North Korea used to be a popular concept in poor countries.

In the visual arts Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain", a urinal, established in 1917 "readymade" art, which continues to be practised, especially in Britain.

The scream is something to be practised sparingly: too much and you end up wanting to stuff socks down the singer's throat.

The psychologist James Reason, author of Human Error, wrote: "Manual control is a highly skilled activity, and skills need to be practised continuously in order to maintain them.

Ruthless, self-centred, individualistic – if these characteristics are rewarded, who will not cultivate them, leaving human virtues to be practised furtively, in the secrecy of a private life where they have been incarcerated as spoilers of the economic game?

Nonviolent demonstrations have routinely been curbed violently, while police brutality and torture of detainees continue to be practised widely in prisons across the country, fuelling endless debates about the return of the authoritarian state.