Sentence examples for the practice of citing from inspiring English sources

Had the practice of citing foreign sources been confined to liberal — and, in the current political arrangement of the Court, less influential — Justices, it would have remained a phenomenon primarily of academic interest.

The decline of the past practice of citing the guides used to identify species in ecological and other studies has further reduced the apparent impact of authors' work [46].

Her claim that the day's events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government's emerging practice of citing laws to justify repression.

To stop the practice of using trust funds to cite a less deficit, I persuaded Congress to adopt Section 13-301 of the Budget Act prohibiting the President and Congress from citing a deficit including Social Security trust funds.

and cites the practice of routinely strip-searching children.

She cites the practice of "spinning your day" -- putting on a happy face no matter how badly work went.

Simmons also cited the practice of Birmingham University that two weeks' notice must be given of visiting speakers "so that the university can vet them".

Or perhaps even older: the Talmud (in Tractate Shabbat 30a) cites the practice of the third-century sage Rabbah, who would precede his discourses with a joke.

For example, she cites the practice of suttee -- by which widows are burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands -- to represent pretty much the whole of the female condition in India.

Mr. de Dios cited the practice of killing the families of informers in one of his articles, noting that the cartel's ruthless techniques kept many people from cooperating with law enforcement.

Chris Walters, acting chief economist of Britain's Office of Fair Trading (OFT), cites the practice of "pay-for-delay", whereby a firm that holds a drug patent pays a generic manufacturer not to launch a rival drug to preserve the patent-holder's monopoly profits.