Sentence examples for the very practices from inspiring English sources

Environmental activists have successfully misled urban voters, influencing legislation that bans the very practices that can prevent or lessen wildfires.

I have served as a public member of US human rights delegations and criticised other governments for the very practices that John Yoo authorised and continues to defend.

Instead we watched helplessly as special interests contorted the proposed bill into health insurance reform that codified the very practices we wished to stop.

Best of all, of course, is the widow's fierce pride over the very practices that have brought the business to the edge of ruination.

Simon Carruth, chief executive of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, says: "Recent years have seen a growing appetite for governments to adopt the very practices they once unequivocally deplored.

Mr. Simitian, who seized on the issue after seeing dangerous behavior on the roadways, told his colleagues the legislation merely sought to codify "the very practices this industry has been promoting for the last several years".

This constant questioning extends to the very practice of filmmaking.

But perhaps the very practice used by these firms can be refitted to stop them.

If such a trend were to continue, we would soon have federal legislators condemning the very practice of religion.

He wants the nation's banks to be prohibited from owning and trading risky securities, the very practice that got the biggest ones into deep trouble in 2008.

Ms. McCain is a senior director of publicity at Capitol Records and would seem to be involved in the very practice her father is investigating.