Sentence examples for the practice of erecting from inspiring English sources

In the 1960s, when he was Union Minister for Mines, a statue of him had been unveiled at Vijayawada by K Kamaraj, the then president of the Congress Party, prompting Reddy to ask for its removal as he deemed the practice of erecting statues of people holding public office undesirable.

But his proposal is as likely to be adopted as farmers are to end their ancient practice of erecting higgledy-piggledy mounds on their tiny plots of land.

For example, it is now apparently the practice of the Rajasthani police to sell billboard space on the metal barriers used to erect blockades or divert trucks into inspection lanes.

And the practice of practice!

The company is offering tenants who erected walls with its approval $700 to help defray the cost of erecting new dividers, like bookshelves.

Erudite and often academic in conversation, the aerialist-thin Mr. De Ritis strolls the practice ring with erect carriage and noble bearing, a clear contrast to the pratfally casualness of the cast and crew.

The award-winning practice has erected a $460m pavilion featuring cantilevered floors and an aluminium-wrapped exterior that on closer inspection resembles the mesh bracelet of a wristwatch.

He could write with great verve about why most cultures buried their dead lying down, but some had the bodies standing erect; about the macabre practice of inhaling a dying person's last breath; and about the even more disturbing one of drinking a loved one's ashes (a custom revived and adapted by Keith Richards, who claimed to have snorted some of his father's remains).

Background: The use of lines erected on the vertebral endplates of the anterior-to-posterior radiograph to assess z-axis vertebral rotation is a common clinical practice.

But work requirements make many people less likely to be employed, and, in practice, they push them off the rolls by erecting a barrier of paperwork.

Here, we extend Donald's (1968) ideas regarding the benefits of erect leaves.