Even the US practices this brand of under-the-table ransom payments according to Burton.
The 2008 launch of clothing line "FAKE" (Fleury's Artistic Kustom Enterprises) led him to approach the Calgary Vipers of the Golden Baseball League in the hope of convincing them to use his brand of practice jerseys.
Kyozan Joshu Sasaki was a Japanese monk who over 50 years became one of the most influential Zen Buddhist teachers in the US, establishing a number of temples and teaching the thousands who passed through his rigorous and strict brand of Zen practice.
But on Friday, the brand of capitalism practiced by his company's chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, came with a decidedly hard edge.
For example, there's the "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" brand of gratitude practiced by chimpanzees, politicians and other primates.
Staged by director Kyle Donnelly with a secure grasp of the diabolical brand of gentility practiced by the Hubbard clan, the production proves exemplary at milking the tension without falling prey — as it might — to outdated histrionics.
Some experts argue that the fundamentalist brand of Islam practiced by both has theological links, however, and Riyadh's recent crackdown has been interpreted as an act of appeasement for Saudi hard-liners.
With its cowboys and its oil wells, Alberta is Canada's Texas, and the brand of politics practiced out there is as far removed from the genteel tones of Ontario and Quebec politics as a Dallas N.R.A. meeting is from a Boston Rotary Club luncheon.
How should one rate the brand of capitalism practiced by Governor Mitt Romney's private equity company, Bain Capital?
The brand of Islam practiced in Bangladesh, Kamal told me, has never been the prohibitive and austere style that's trumpeted by oil-rich Saudi sheikhs.
(A Saudi, self-styled Wahhabi [the brand of Islam practiced and promoted by the royal family] hacker collective called Group-XP waged one major attack, leaking tens of thousands of Israeli credit card details in 2012. But this group never claimed connection to the Saudi state. There does not appear to be a correlate to the Syrian or Venezuelan groups in the Kingdom).
