Sentence examples for unsuccessful practice from inspiring English sources

Since the 1880's, when a movement against signing began at an international conference in Milan, schools for the deaf had insisted that their students communicate orally, an often unsuccessful practice that involves lip-reading and trying to produce understandable sounds.

It is assumed that successful practice of skills increases self-efficacy whereas unsuccessful practice decreases self-efficacy.

By monitoring the administration of drugs by an enteral feeding tube in the adult and pediatric ICUs, we have found several factors that could lead to an unsuccessful practice.

So how can this not entirely unsuccessful exercise in improving donor practices be preserved in a framework that works?

War damage to public buildings was repaired, and ambitious reconstruction plans were drawn up, but once again these were by and large unsuccessful in practice.

Externalists claim they are unsuccessful; ordinary practice is committed to genuine (and genuinely authoritative) external reasons, and rightly so.

While prestressing of surface-bonded FRP has been rather unsuccessful in practice, alternate concepts have been investigated (Pham and Al-Mahaidi 2006; Zhuo et al. 2009).

Physicians can see improvements very quickly, but if the change is unsuccessful, the practice will not have invested too much time and effort.

After an unsuccessful attempt to practice law, he gradually withdrew into a life of seclusion, marked by eccentric behaviour and delusions of persecution.

According to his version, spinal surgery was frequently unsuccessful, so doctors' practices would fill up with "bent nails"–crippled patients in wheelchairs without much hope.

Across town, Dr. Shah said that his efforts in recent years to hire an electrophysiologist for his practice were unsuccessful.