Sentence examples for the practice spread from inspiring English sources

Might the practice spread?

The practice spread during the 20th century, and became almost universal by the 1960s.

But further suggestions have emerged that the practice spread beyond The News of the World.

The practice spread to Greece: in 400BC the king of Sparta received a gift of fattened geese from Egypt.

He said that the idea of the bishop came from England but that the practice spread in both directions.

The practice spread to the Cluniac monasteries and eventually became the norm at Benedictine monasteries across Europe.

Monroe H. Freedman, who teaches legal ethics at the Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, N.Y., agrees that problems may arise as the practice spreads.

But with the practice spreading in recent years, according to 311 complaints, the city's Transportation Department has proposed a sizable deterrent: quintupling the fine for "street defacement" to $250, from $50 — where it has stood for more than 20 years.

For years, health officials have told parents not to share utensils with their babies or clean their pacifiers by putting them in their mouths, arguing that the practice spreads harmful germs between parent and child.

Despite attaching their own love lock in Paris five years ago, Carolyn and Clive are in two minds about the practice spreading to England.

From England, this practice spread around the world.