Sentence examples for the practice of destroying from inspiring English sources

The practice of destroying books to save them has stopped.

The newly declassified documents show that the practice of destroying papers rather than allowing them to fall into the hands of post-independence governments pre-dated Macleod's 1961 instructions.

The practice of destroying hospitals was corroborated by another humanitarian emergency organization, the New York-based International Rescue Committee, which said in a report on Monday that the Syrian authorities were engaged in "a systematic campaign" to hamper medical care through bombing and closing hospitals and intimidating, torturing and killing doctors who help the wounded.

The practice of destroying drafts and other documents, but keeping the "work papers" that support the auditor's conclusions is "nonsense," says Douglas Carmichael Douglas Carmichael, an accounting professor at Baruch College.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in October that Israel would continue the practice of destroying the homes of militant's families, which he said is is an effective tool to deter terrorist attacks.

We found words to make you swoon ('Vernalagnia,' a romantic mood brought on by Spring), words you never knew existed ('Biblioclasm,' the practice of destroying books), and words to make you sound like a pretentious know-it-all ('Pogonotrophy,' the act of growing facial hair).

Another issue raised by campaigners is the standard practice of destroying the evidence base and inspectors' notes six months after a school's inspection report is published.

She cited "the prevailing practice of destroying anyone who is considered a threat to the higher authorities by your government, by means of murder, 'disappearances', physical attacks".

Sex selection became a tool in a wider battle to stop "overpopulation".But how did an obsession of Western policymakers turn into the widespread practice of destroying female fetuses in Asia?

In this environment, the reprogramming studies, preliminary as they are, are likely to be seized on by critics of ES cell research as further evidence that there is no need for the contentious practice of destroying early embryos to obtain stem cells.

The Army's practice of destroying bunkers and tunnels after burning the homes had always baffled him anyway, Reid said.