A shared religion defined rules and practices.
But unresolved work rules and practices are decided unilaterally by management.
Halakhah is the set of rules and practices governing Jewish life.
Yet too often their lives are governed by rules and practices that belong to another time".
In 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act to outlaw discriminatory voting rules and practices.
There were unwritten rules and practices designed to keep it that way.
Each new boy was given a 'helper' to guide him through the maze of rules and practices.
This is difficult, because official statistics mismeasure – or simply miss – many of the real economy's hidden rules and practices".
Prosperity leads to rising public environmental concern and the wherewithal for governments to change rules and practices.
Oddly, the regulators sometimes agree; the rules and practices governing reactor safety, they say, are a patchwork.
The judge said, however, that government antitrust lawyers had proved that "the exclusionary rules and practices of the defendants" had harmed consumers and should be abolished.
