Sentence examples for western practice from inspiring English sources

In contrast to Western practice, responsibilities for aircraft types, military and civil, were specified explicitly by the government.

Sadly, in all the recent discussions of "the end of history," few Western commentators have addressed the biggest lapse in Western practice.

Mr. Seipel said he attributed Mr. Putin's sensitivity to a "Soviet style" that differed sharply from the Western practice of putting political families on public display.

Today, his assaults on censorship, racism, the Vietnam war and bigotry in general all occupy a triumphant place in the mainstream of western thought (if not always in western practice).

A paper-thin wall within a grungy East Village apartment building separates good and evil, hope and despair and Eastern and Western practice in the slightly self-enamored yet generally affecting "1/3".

Performance that originated as ceremony, not entertainment, and visual art that was about interior mapping, not interior decoration, grow out of an experiential approach to knowledge and being that reaches far beyond the mere professionalization of the arts in late Western practice.

The geometric ground plans, however, show similarities with Western practices.

But the coda to my meal, faloodeh (45 dirhams), flipped these quaint Western practices topsy-turvy.

A code of laws was worked out that combined ancient customs with such Western practices as monogamy.

Slovak leaders are convinced that the only path to prosperity involves adopting western practices on everything from monetary policy to accounting practices and bankruptcy law.

Like revivalist preachers, they invite our faith, our willingness to search for magic in ancient, undecipherable Oriental practices (as opposed to the new, quite decipherable, Western practices).