District judges have struck a blow against the practice of gerrymandering – the deliberate manipulation of voting boundaries to favour one party over another – in a ruling that could reverberate across the US.
I was now teaching the literature of the American Puritans, at a Welsh university college, and was getting professionally involved with serious theocrats, like Cotton and Increase Mather, whose take-no-prisoners style of religious practice struck a strangely warming chord in my atheistic, Marxist heart.
The minister Kim Howells, in the Department of Trade and Industry, boasted: "The government today struck a fatal blow against the practice of so-called 'nominee directorships'".
But In Irma Vep, Assayas finally struck a balance between theory and practice, delivering the first uniquely Assayas movie.
But while Ryanair's ancillary model and cost-cutting practices have struck a nerve among passengers like Mr. Miró, the airline continues to grow in a challenging economy and recently overtook Iberia as the largest carrier in Spain.
More important, there is a way the House could have struck a blow for sensible compensation practices while still keeping incentives for good performance intact: it could have said that most bonus pay had to come in the form of restricted stock, which is stock that employees could sell only after a certain number of years.
We have no basis for striking down a practice that is not expressly prohibited by the Fourteenth Amendment's text, and that bears the endorsement of a long tradition of open, widespread, and unchallenged use dating back to the Amendment's ratification".
BART had been training some managers as operators so they could run skeletal commuter service in the event of a prolonged strike — a practice unions had opposed, calling it unsafe.
At least a few new immigrants will be moving to Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a practice that strikes a nerve among Palestinians.
In the future, decision support tools for antibiotic prescribing should strike a balance between promoting practice change and supporting individual clinicians' modes of balancing clinical and population-level evidence.
