Brain washing is a common practice

It is common practice for converts to Islam to adopt Muslim names.

They include forced marriage, a common practice which is perpetuated for various reasons, particularly material ones.

The Brazilian Government is now creating a common set of guidelines for assistance and practice standards.

Wiretapping has been common practice within Iran since the 1950s.

Sea disposal of solid wastes is still a common practice for small and medium sized urban centres

Such screening is a common and justifiable practice around the world.

Less common during the Middle Ages, this practice resurfaced during the Renaissance.

Torture appears to be a common practice in order to secure confessions.

Due to this practice, cheating has become common at high school graduation exams.

This practice is quite common among less educated women, a majority in Mozambique.

Outside of Europe this practice was more common such as theta links from India.

A common practice for space exploration is to use the Earth based time zone of the launch site or mission control.

It is an increasingly common practice as the tools and expertise grows in this area.

A common practice was the chaining of mentally ill people to a tree or within the home for up to seven years.

The practice of Islam in Liberia has been compared to Sufi Islam common in Senegal and Gambia.

Bird obtained his degree by submitting testimonials from qualified colleagues, which was common practice at the time.

This approach became common practice later, e.g., Pascal or Java, but the Richards BCPL compiler was the first to define a virtual machine for this purpose.

It is common practice to count the software size (Source lines of code) to track current project progress or establish a baseline for future project estimates.

In the Netherlands, home birth is still a common practice, although rates have been declining during the past decades.

It has become common practice for boards to establish board committees to facilitate fulfillment of certain of the board's functions and address some potential conflicts of interest.

Before it is registered, it is common practice (with some legal standing) to use the service mark symbol (a superscript SM).

It was a common practice for individuals to judge any communal disagreement privately and use force to resolve it. Such behaviour often led to social disorder or social conflict.

Recording forced confessions of detainees is a very common practice in Syria, as a way to discourage others from joining the opposition.

The reliance on foreign legal concepts in the interpretation of German law was not only permissible, but also common practice in arbitration.

Many young people feel that full and effective youth engagement in decision making is a long way from being a common practice.

Common practice in the US is to neglect this maintenance until the tank develops a leak, and then to replace the entire appliance.

That was common practice in the industry, and those who held patents on airplanes were defending them fiercely and suing competitors left and right.

Although Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1981 and made the practice a crime in 2007, slavery is still a common phenomenon in the country.

Impaling live bait on hooks is a common commercial practice long line fishing, for example, uses hundreds or even thousands of hooks on a single line that may be 50 100 kilometers long.

It is common practice for oil and gas producing countries to negotiate local content agreements with interested IOCs in an attempt to secure for the country a higher share of the value from oil and gas projects.

The criteria and indicators processes have helped in developing a common understanding of the characteristics of sustainable forest management and in translating it into practice.

When the pardon was granted, the accused's sense that impunity prevailed was validated by the Spanish authorities' common practice of pardoning individuals accused of torture.

In accordance with United Nations common practice, UNHCR has not provided for any accrued or future liability for after service health insurance costs or for other types of end of service payments that fall due when staff members leave the organization.

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The independent expert was informed that some male minors held with adults in the Ngozi prison alleged that sexual abuse by adult prisoners was common practice.

Countries should also progress towards the establishment and eventual adoption of common international standards and criteria for recognition, as well as international standards for the practice of professions, which fully take into account the realities in and interests of developing countries.

(2006 Identification by the Working Group on the Practice of States in Registering Space Objects of common practices and drafting of recommendations for enhancing adherence to the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space.

Common reasons for connection failures

Common banking supervision is needed for strengthening confidence among countries using common financial backstops.

This practice has spread such that now it is common for a customer to engage a service provider by including a service level agreement in a wide range of service contracts in practically all industries and markets.

He also initiated the now common practice of measuring and comparing political and economic freedom across countries, helping to shape opinion in countries that are viewed as limiting freedom.

In keeping with common Chinese practice, his remains were placed in the Temple of Azure Clouds, a Buddhist shrine in the Western Hills a few miles outside of Beijing.

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In practice parents sometimes select spouses for their children, particularly for daughters.