Sentence examples for the practice of empty from inspiring English sources

The court stated that "the practice of empty voting presents a challenge to shareholder democracy … when a party has a vote in a company but no economic interest in that company, that party's interests may not lie in the well-being of the company itself".

Moreover, focusing on the practice of emptying flooded sugar fields into Lake Okeechobee (ie. "back pumping") is a grand form of misdirection.

Rather than the practice of emptying one's thought, this suggests an approach of consciously filling thought with something good, of meditating on a divine influence that acts throughout our day.

Soon after, the Board's six-member Democratic minority sought to use what it said was growing public criticism of the practice of carrying empty job slots and sought support for elimination of 400 of the unfilled positions, which they said would represent a saving of $10.4 million.

At the same time, however, the law encourages the practice of leaving properties empty by offering a council tax exemption on any dwellings that are vacant for up to six months.

At Trattoria dell'Arte, a few days after the screening, Shadyac prefaced a lunch conversation by following the monastic practice of emptying his pockets of his possessions: a billfold wrapped in a black scrunchie, and a white scrunchie.

After World War II, film studios began to move outside Hollywood, and the practice of filming "on location" emptied many of the famous lots and sound stages or turned them over to television show producers.

Mediation is the practice of letting your mind become empty and releasing any stress that you hold inside you.

The practice of using a bone graft to fill the "empty core" of the calcaneus during surgery has become increasingly popular.

The Zhuangzi speaks in this regard of the practice of "sitting down and forgetting everything" and of "being empty like a mirror" (see Watson 1968, 90 and 97).

If the power of digital technology makes obsolete the practice of banning journalists, what remains of the old system but an empty seat?