Sentence examples for raft of practices from inspiring English sources

A raft of practices – from deforestation for land clearance to the types of intensive farming that exhausts nutrients or make the soil too salty for crops – contribute to depleted soils.

These days, a raft of illicit practices, crafted from old excesses, have become a rickety means of sliding by.

The lobbying campaign was in full swing even before Thursday's decision by a federal court of appeals here, which vacated the order to break up Microsoft but also found that the company had engaged in a raft of anticompetitive practices in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

This refers to a raft of policies and practices refined after "color revolutions" abroad and, at home, tens of thousands of demonstrations by workers and peasants, ethnic unrest, and the spread of mobile communications and broadband networking.

A raft of evidence-based practice-change strategies will also be adopted to overcome systemic and other barriers to clinician compliance, thereby maximising the clinical implementation of EAT.

The bank is also facing a raft of investigations into its mortgage practices.

It is down not so much to the attacks as to the whole raft of proposed changes in accounting practices, corporate governance and the handling of investment banks' conflicts of interest that the financial world will genuinely never be the same again.

Not all the theories reflected well on their proponents — there was a raft of confused ideas about the cultural practices of Caribbeans, and the dietary predilections of crack addicts.

The challenge for many African countries is how to get into practice the whole raft of interventions known from research to be effective in improving quality of care.

It has filed a raft of what are known as unfair labor practice charges against management, claiming they illegally threatened and punished workers who were union supporters.

This does not necessarily mean that IFCs are to be seen as part of some conspiratorial hegemonic plot, but a reminder to attend to the raft of biases and heuristics deeply embedded in policies and practices.