Sentence examples for repugnant practices from inspiring English sources

In "The Honor Code," we accompany Detective Appiah as he tries to figure out who killed three morally repugnant practices: dueling among British gentlemen, foot-binding among the Chinese elite and slavery in the British Empire.

This is a repugnant practice".

Why shouldn't adults use it as a way to get inside activities they find fascinating in theory but repugnant in practice?

Mr. McConnell also seemed to disown a statement that it might be necessary to accept repugnant or racist practices like those practiced at Bob Jones University if they came from a religious basis.

It depicts repugnant attitudes and practices of white supremacy that poisoned earlier generations' achievements and that are inseparable from those achievements.

Even if they were unsuccessful, they would at least be demonstrating to Chinese officials that even friends find certain practices repugnant.

Many sacred texts contain problematic passages (i.e. passages which endorse morally repugnant ideas and practices).

"The vice president believes such practices are repugnant.

The revived bank, which Mnuchin called OneWest Bank, was accused by a judge of engaging in "harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive" practices.

Then again, some Asian countries, notably Japan, which ruled Korea for 35 years early in the last century, view the practice as repugnant.

Economic conservatives tend to favor eliminating as many hindrances on the market as possible, while social conservatives believe some practices are so "repugnant" — because they violate traditional values or religious and moral prohibitions — that they should be banned from the marketplace altogether.