Sentence examples for scandalous practice from inspiring English sources

He would end the scandalous practice of writing checks for party "housekeeping" that have no limits at all.

The guidelines would disallow the scandalous practice of analysts acting against their own recommendations -- selling stock, for example, that they are urging investors to buy.

Robert Love's account of Bernard's life, "The Great Oom," is an exemplary popular history, filled with titillating detail, tracing the way influence and charisma can take an esoteric (and scandalous) practice and turn it mainstream.

Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer further encouraged the agency to "seize this opportunity to end the scandalous practice of groups abusing the tax laws to hide from the American people campaign finance information to which they are entitled".

"Behind the full veil hide scandalous practices that are contrary to our history," he said.

He expressed amazement at the prevalence of weapons and drugs in the schools, and the scandalous practices of some of the local school boards.

Even the more orthodox financial institutions deploy a succession of scandalous practices: pension mis-selling, endowment mortgage fraud, the payment protection insurance con, Libor rigging.

In a sensational two-part article, "The College Athlete," in the June and July 1905 issues of McClure's magazine, he exposed the brutality and scandalous practices then engulfing the college game.

Three, that Bush and his fellow Harken directors made a series of manoeuvres that can now be seen to be a mirror image of the scandalous practices of their friends at the disgraced Enron.

The scandalous practices involved necromancy, invoking the dead, by murdering young boys.

Cicero attacked Vatinius, consul in 48 and a supporter of Caesar, for calling himself a Pythagorean and trying to shield his scandalous practices under the name of Pythagoras (Vat. 6).