Sentence examples for sinister practices from inspiring English sources

The black magician also took pleasure in the suffering that his sinister practices apparently brought to local villagers.

It included the testimony of an Iraqi doctor who said he had been forced to take part in one of the more sinister practices that took place in Abu Ghraib prison: the forced draining of political prisoners' blood before their executions, so that the reason for subsequent death could be recorded as "heart failure".

This sinister practice is still going on.

They think Vodou is about sorcery, maybe love magic, usually some sort of sinister practice".

With the term "subprime" having entered everyday parlance denoting some vaguely sinister lending practices, it's easy to forget that subprime loans are an essential means of extending credit to working-class people, thereby greatly enhancing their prospects for owning property and joining the middle class.

As for the sinister new practice of cutting, that's as old as drugs themselves.

In between torment sessions and mastermind plotting, Take time to enjoy life steal candy from babies, pop kids balloons etc. Repeat Shave your head or let your hair get long you want that sinister look practice your victory laugh nothing corny! by being the bad guy you may experience depression or claustrophobia if you get caught (prison) never go toe to toe with super heroes death may occur.

Perhaps more sinister is the practice of jurors — often prohibited from voting for their own students — secretly trading votes with other jurors whose students are also competing.

Navalny's supporters said that Tuesday's verdict showed the Kremlin was returning to the sinister Soviet-era practice of punishing the relatives of those it disliked.

Although the Andersen affair has imbued the phrase "document retention" with a sinister connotation, the practice of routinely sorting out the reams of records that a firm accumulates makes sense from a business standpoint.

The court prohibited such actions, ruling "...we must condemn the practice of imputing a sinister meaning to the exercise of a person's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment.