Sentence examples for suspected practice from inspiring English sources

In an interview, Mr. Fisch said that his 10-month investigation — an unusually detailed look at a widely suspected practice of political hiring within New York's vast state bureaucracy — raised the possibility that those suspicions were accurate.

One of the most obvious ways to restore confidence would be to suspend Ms. Brooks, who was editor of The News of the World when some of the worst suspected practices took place, until the police investigation is over.

Community members were also likely to shun VHTs who they did not trust because of undesired behaviors like heavy drinking and suspected practicing of witchcraft.

Alan Feuer (NYT) CONNECTICUT HARTFORD: NEW TRASH RULES URGED Accusing Connecticut's trash collectors of engaging in "suspect practices" for years, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called for the state to begin regulating the hauling agency.

For years, the Dominican Republic has bred great players and suspect practices from the mix of the nation's poverty and the potential riches of making it to the major league.

19 The selection of relevant variables was based on clinically suspected referral practice together with previously reported indications of inequities in the access to health care services in Denmark.

It was a suspect practice.

Others have pointed out that the below-market rent that the city charges these congregations amounts to government's subsidizing religion, a constitutionally suspect practice.

An implication of these notions is that concatenation of protein sequences in an attempt to enhance the signal and resolve deep phylogenies, a common approach in genome-wide phylogenetic analysis [ 22, 99, 100], is a highly suspect practice at best.

During certain periods in Christian Europe, especially the Middle Ages, worship of demons and the practice of witchcraft brought about the wrath of both church and people on those suspected of practicing diabolical rites, such as the Black Mass.

She was quickly suspected of practicing witchcraft and sent back to prison.