Sentence examples for the practice of picking from inspiring English sources

Last year, he abandoned the practice of picking his party's presidential candidate.

The issue of discrimination in jury selection returned to the Supreme Court today, 16 years after the justices specified procedures for detecting the unconstitutional practice of picking or excluding jurors on the basis of race.

A22 Court Reviews Jury Selection The Supreme Court heard arguments that question a 1986 ruling that specified procedures for detecting the unconstitutional practice of picking or excluding jurors on the basis of their race.

The proposal is designed to stop thieves from making serious money from stolen cardboard, plastic and bottles, they said, not to end the longtime practice of picking through neighbors' trash for personal use.

To solve this problem, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota inserted an amendment in the Senate bill that would end the practice of banks picking the agency to rate their securities; rather, an agency would be chosen at random, and the bank would be forced to accept its rating.

Zero rating is the practice of ISPs picking and choosing which data counts towards bandwidth caps.

However, the presence of such genotypic diversity in pathogen populations challenges the long held practice of picking and propagating a single example of each colonial morphotype from a primary culture and suggests a role for metagenomic approaches that might capture bacterial genetic heterogeneity directly from the clinical sample without culture [ 33- 35].

At the time, the West Indies had a practice of picking their captain from the colony that the match was being played in, and Fernandes was granted the honour for the match in British Guiana.

The district previously had announced it was ending a longstanding practice of picking up the bulk of pension contributions for teachers.

When they were living under lights in the mudroom as chicks, I made a practice of picking them up, those that would let me.

Congress, for its part, may be talking a good game on criminal justice reforms, but there are still a large group of fire-breathing Republicans who are upset President Obama used his commutation power to "continue this Administration's plainly unconstitutional practice of picking and choosing which laws to enforce and which to change".