Sentence examples for unfortunate practice from inspiring English sources

It would be an unfortunate practice for publishers to save on paper by routinely spinning off the back matter.

Mr. Carr's "The Media Equation" had the headline "The Puppetry of Quotation Approval," and it laid out just what an unfortunate practice has developed.

Indeed, the staff of the Fed said that last May's increase had given rise to a unfortunate practice that today's proposal sought to correct: the selling off by large banks of many low-yielding, safe assets in exchange for riskier, high-yielding assets in order to generate more income to meet the higher requirement.

(The unfortunate practice at the FCC of writing very long orders is encouraged by past judicial decisions, but a discussion of that issue is for another time).

This unfortunate practice of "missing" the domestic violence connection to homicides is one that has been well-documented in academic and journalism circles.

"The content of this document will dredge up a lot of unfortunate practices," said the statement by the Barnes chairman, Dr. Bernard C. Watson.

Third, a critic of agents is quoted as stating, "When you deputize someone to represent you who doesn't eat unless he brings you warm bodies, you can expect all kinds of unfortunate practices".

"When you deputize someone to represent you who doesn't eat unless he brings you warm bodies, you can expect all kinds of unfortunate practices," said Barmak Nassirian, an associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers and one of the most outspoken critics of commissioned agents.

In a statement yesterday, Robert M. Devlin, the chief executive of American General, said it was "imperative that we move swiftly and responsibly to correct an unfortunate historical practice".

A teacher named Miss Rusty publishes a book in which teen-aged boys, named after and resembling her students, sell cocaine, skip school, and, at one unfortunate point, practice "orgasmic moans" that sound like "the soundtrack to teenage gay porn".

An unfortunate frequent practice in the field of bioinformatics to date is to use as classification performance metric the proportion of misclassifications.