But analysts point out that the very practice of trying to analyze what a country's debt will be eight years on is in itself flawed — as the I.M.F. has accepted in a recent report that explained how it missed debt explosions in Greece, Ireland and Iceland.
Environmental activists have successfully misled urban voters, influencing legislation that bans the very practices that can prevent or lessen wildfires.
It would also require that ballots in extremely close elections be recounted by hand -- the very practice that Florida election officials and the Bush campaign opposed in their battle with Al Gore.
It would also require that ballots in extremely close elections be recounted by hand -- the very practice that Florida election officials and the Bush campaign had opposed so fiercely last year in their battle with Democrats who were insisting that manual recounts would tip the election to Al Gore.
He wants the nation's banks to be prohibited from owning and trading risky securities, the very practice that got the biggest ones into deep trouble in 2008.
Indeed, it was this very practice that proved the Inca's undoing, for the Spanish treasure seekers abandoned all other pursuits in their greed for precious metals.
But Mr. Mangano's financial plan called for borrowing $364 million over the next two years to pay tax refunds — "the very practice that precipitated the 2000 crisis NIFA was created to address," the board said.
But, by the time my novel came out, I was also writing book reviews, often of novels, some of them first novels, and I was regularly engaging in the very practice that I found distasteful when it was applied to my own work.
Some say it is this very practice that puts the sharks at further risk.
Alas, the world of yoga is not perfect, and, paradoxically, the very practice that lowers my stress level can cause it to soar.
