Sentence examples for vicious practices from inspiring English sources

As you point out, the Shining Path guerrillas in Peru, despite their vicious practices, have been gaining ground and are heavily involved in the coca-growing region.

Class No. 3 are vicious, but a grade better in behavior than No. 4. Class No. 2 are nearly, but not quite, free from vicious practices.

As each episode attempts to increase the shock value, every event — murder, rape, the erosion of civil liberties, the vicious practices of torture itself — becomes just another juicy "scandal".

John Waghelstein, a retired Special Forces colonel who led the team of American advisers in El Salvador in the 1980's, is regarded as an astute though controversial practitioner of counterinsurgency; he promotes the "total war" strategy but does not define it as the vicious practices used by some of his pupils in the Salvadoran Army.

Michael Eric Dyson describes the book as "a valiant call to arms against the vicious practices that undermine the best of the American ideals we claim to cherish".

"Today we have designated the MOIS for abusing the basic rights of Iranian citizens and exporting its vicious practices to support the Syrian regime's abhorrent crackdown on its own population," David Cohen, the U.S. Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement.

The opera's story concerns the vicious practice, not unknown on the Cornish coast in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of luring ships onto rocks and plundering their contents.

Sir George Beaumont, collector, patron, and, as he supposed, arbiter of British taste, complained noisily of Turner's "vicious practice" and dismissed his handling of the paint surface as "comparatively, blots".

The vicious practice was condoned of having the NKVD prepare lists of persons whose cases were under the jurisdiction of the military collegium and whose sentences were prepared in advance.

But while Russians by all accounts outnumber other foreigners fighting in eastern Ukraine, the foreign ministry in Moscow on Thursday blamed other countries for the "vicious practice" of allowing their citizens to fight for Ukraine, in response to a report that Croatian volunteers were assisting Kiev.

All of that made the abuse of psychiatry possible to suppress those who opposed the political regime, and that created the vicious practice of ignoring the rights of the mentally ill.