Sentence examples for revolting practice from inspiring English sources

Some are still hunted for their meat and fins, and it seems that the revolting practice of live finning – slicing off the fins, then dumping the shark overboard to die slowly – continues.

A poet's prosodic style may show all of the earmarks of revolt against prevailing metrical practice.

Every five years, pilgrims flock to the temple of the goddess Gadhimai in the small Nepalese border town of Bariyarpur to behead vast quantities of livestock over two days, creating scenes of carnage that revolt opponents of the practice.

The trigger for the emancipation of the serfs in Prussia and Russia may have been defeat in war, but in practice, peasant revolts from below were bringing it about anyway.

Although the practice was a cultural revolt against the tyranny of contemporary fashion, the clothing was generally expressed with current tastes in mind.

Citigroup, Barclays and Credit Suisse all faced shareholder revolts against their remuneration practices recently.

As you can imagine, Mr. Carpenter revolts against classical music practiced as a reverence toward inviolate texts.

Set in 1915, the film uses a nonprofessional cast and spare, black-and-white cinematography to tell the story of a young activist (Robert Behling) who covers the plains of North Dakota enlisting farmers in a revolt against the exploitative practices of banks and grain elevator operators.

And the rise of the practice also illustrates how little the Arab revolts have changed the conditions that led to mass unrest in the first place.

Antiochus, the Greek ruler, forbade Jewish religious practice, so a small group of Jews, the Maccabees, revolted.

Presumably this precaution is to keep the laypeople from revolting should they ever, you know, discover that eugenics is being practiced upon them.