Sentence examples for the practice of quoting from inspiring English sources

Authors taking a similar approach developed, for safety's sake, the practice of quoting passages from the Roman historian Tacitus (ad 56 120)—thus becoming known as "Tacitists"—when they might just as well have cited Machiavelli.

The practice of quoting verbatim from Numenius' work is inherited by Eusebius, who has preserved more fragments of Numenius than any other ancient author.

Soon after the practice of quote approval was made public in July in a Times article by Jeremy Peters, other publications pushed back.

We consider such an approach to be preferred to the widespread practice of quoting the individual significance of a number of different single marker and/or multimarker analyses and leaving it to the reader to form some kind of judgement as to the implication of the results.

The following account from the Yuanshi ("History of the Yuan Dynasty") of the total lunar eclipse of May 19 , 1277 follows the customary practice of quoting timings in double hours (12 to a combined day and night) and marks (each equal to 1/100 of a day and night, or 0.24 hour): 14th year of the Zhiyuan reign period, 4th month, day guiyou [the 10th cyclical day], full Moon.

That game ended when the Securities & Exchange Commission ordered broad reforms, including scrapping the antique practice of quoting prices in eighths of a dollar.

The answer is also aggressive reporting that does not confuse fairness with the unsatisfactory practice of quoting one strident voice and then its opposite in every story.

The usual practice of quoting ex-employees was supplemented by a succession of anonymous quotes and unsubstantiated assertions.

Mr. B.'s sense of reliving the past was analogous to his practice of quoting other men's sayings or speaking their thoughts in his own words.

This practice of quoting documents to support historians' claims, universal today, was controversial at the time.

In his apology, he said he admitted that was wrong to say the practice of substituting quotes gained through a face-to-face interview with other quotes was justified because it gave "the clearest possible representation of what the interviewee thought".