Sentence examples for tackle the practice from inspiring English sources
He added his voice to the call for better data collection and more government and public commitment to tackle the practice.
Today the Government will announce steps to tackle the practice of adding a last-minute levy far above the actual cost to the retailer of processing a card payment, which can be as little as 10p.
Sarah McCulloch, who runs the grassroots anti-FGM charity ACCMUK, said: "The report is great but for me it has failed to provide guidelines as to what professionals should do or make the government provide funding for local groups to tackle the practice on the ground".
To coincide with the United Nations day of zero tolerance on FGM, the Welsh government and Welsh FGM Forum has hosted a conference to tackle the practice.
It comes as ministers debate how to tackle the practice, which involves people posting naked pictures of ex-partners online to humiliate them.
Although HMRC has sought to tackle the practice by taking enforcement action in a few "lead" cases, such investigations can take many years to resolve and the rulings cannot always be applied successfully elsewhere.
George Osborne has made tackling the practice a priority for Britain's chairmanship of the G8.
Our article 'Why should the British public care about FGM?' attracted ideas from readers on tackling the practice.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the club of developed nations, has been spearheading recent work on tackling the practice of "profit-shifting", and Britain has signed up to the new rules it has drafted.
At the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Tuesday, UK international development minister Lynne Featherstone said this was the largest donor contribution to tackling the practice, which is prevalent in many countries.
But he added that the "core problems to solve and where the attention should be" was adjusting business rates and tackling the practice of companies organising their corporate structures so that profits made in the UK were recognised abroad and so not subject to taxes here.
