Sentence examples for the practice by which from inspiring English sources

He's setting up an inter-governmental task force to tackle corruption, and has promised to overhaul the court system to tackle so-called "telephone sentences"–the practice by which judges are told what the sentence should be through a phone call.

Judicial review – the practice by which the Supreme Court invalidates laws passed by the people's representatives – is undemocratic.

"California Takes Aim at Dealer Bias in Car Loans" (news article, July 16) questions the practice by which dealers are compensated for helping consumers obtain auto financing.

"In the past," he said, "you have been fully supportive of this program and the practice by which we have overseen it".

The system prevents "sweethearting"—the practice by which cashiers collude in a theft, either by failing to scan an item or by entering the wrong price.

(Malting is the practice by which dampened, germinating barley is dried and thus halted in its growth; the grain can then proceed to fermentation).

The Second Sex highlights the practices by which women become women through their appropriation of bodily (sexual) difference, as well as the manner in which a human being generally is limited and compelled by bodily and unconscious forces.

Thus, whether his theory of truth is consensualist or realist, his view of the practices by which we attain it grants a central place to dialogue and social interaction.

It describes and compares the practices by which eight governments apply differential subsidies, and then summarizes guidelines for their design that can be inferred from optimal tax and expenditure theory.

Ribot and Peluso distinguish between access control (the ability to mediate other people's access) and access maintenance which are the practices by which people expend "resources or powers to keep a particular sort of resource access open" for themselves ([30]: 159).

Swinglehurst and Greenhalgh's paper on the production of care records in general practice provides just such an example of the benefits of attending to the practices by which data for audit are produced [ 15].