It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

The few cases of clear favoritism along social-class lines are as likely as not to involve representatives of the working class on the school board who favor some such practice as higher wages for janitors rather than pay increases for teachers, and such issues are not issues of educational policy.

But the practice is likely to be misleading, since it may seem to support a conclusion that, as long as the revenues from any class of service cover the imputed operating expenses plus some return on capital investment, however low, the rates of charge for this service are compensatory.

Accordingly, though the practice violated the no-trading provision of the Selkirk charter which reserved all such activity in merchandise and furs to the Hudson's Bay Company, some settlers went into trade.

However this ideal is not normally achieved in practice ; some languages ( such as Spanish and Finnish ) come close to it, while others ( such as English ) deviate from it to a much larger degree.

In practice, some alloys are used so predominantly with respect to their base metals that the name of the primary constituent is also used as the name of the alloy.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

The philosophy of aesthetics as a practice has been criticized by some sociologists and writers of art and society.

Among some Protestant bodies, who do not consider it a sacrament, but instead as a practice suggested rather than commanded by Scripture, it is called anointing with oil.

In principle and in academic use, an arbitrage is risk-free ; in common use, as in statistical arbitrage, it may refer to expected profit, though losses may occur, and in practice, there are always risks in arbitrage, some minor ( such as fluctuation of prices decreasing profit margins ), some major ( such as devaluation of a currency or derivative ).

However, after discovering that some people were selling the autographed books online for high prices, he ended this practice as well.

This often happens when a change in design or operating practice, such as the switch to one person operation or low floor technology, renders some buses redundant while still relatively new.

The practice of bedecking the May Bush / Dos Bhealtaine with flowers, ribbons, garlands and coloured egg shells is found among the Gaelic diaspora, most notably in Newfoundland, and in some Easter traditions on the East Coast of the United States.

The practice caught some attention in the spring of 2005, when fans performed the " O!

In the interior of Borneo are also the Penan, some of who still practice a nomadic hunter-gatherer existence.

Nevertheless, for convenience, there is usually some logical scheme behind the labels inside kets, such as the common practice of labeling energy eigenkets in quantum mechanics with a list of their quantum numbers.

Monastic influence accounts for the practice of adding to the reading of a biblical passage some patristic commentary or exposition.

In practice, as before the Reformation, many received communion rarely, as little as once a year in some cases ; George Herbert estimated it as no more than six times.

However practice was variable: very high attendance at festivals was in most places the order of the day and in some places regular communion was very popular, in other places they stayed away or sent " a servant to be the liturgical representative of their household.

The Chinese recorded the first official account of the practice in 2300 BC, but it is generally believed that gambling in some form or another has been seen in almost every society in history.

Further, some older forms of Celtic music that are rare in Scotland and Ireland today, such as practice of accompanying a fiddle with a piano, or the Gaelic spinning songs of Cape Breton remain common in the Maritimes.

The use of any lubricating powder in crokinole is controversial, with some purists reviling the practice.

This practice also spread to street names, names of parks and buildings and some more trivial features.

In fact, these relationships were promoted as alternatives to and practice for a woman's marriage to a man.

He has also played a role in providing alternatives to traditional performance practice techniques, often specifying forceful, rhythmic articulations, and amplified, non-vibrato, singing.

Somewhat earlier, exploration of mathematical practice and quasi-empiricism in mathematics from the 1950s to 1980s had sought alternatives to metamathematics in social behaviours around mathematics itself: for instance, Paul Erdős's simultaneous belief in Platonism and a single " big book " in which all proofs existed, combined with his personal obsessive need or decision to collaborate with the widest possible number of other mathematicians.

We would expect to find the total probability by multiplying the probabilities of each of the actions, for any chosen positions of E and F. We then, using rule a ) above, have to add up all these probabilities for all the alternatives for E and F. ( This is not elementary in practice, and involves integration.

The diverse range of buildings of Venturi's early career offered surprising alternatives to then current architectural practice, with " impure " forms ( such as the North Penn Visiting Nurses Headquarters ), apparently casual asymmetries ( as at the Vanna Venturi House ), and pop-style supergraphics and geometries ( for instance, the Lieb House ).

Several alternatives to traditional chlorination exist, and have been put into practice to varying extents.

The two alternatives are to abbreviate as " mcg " or to write out " microgram " in full, the latter being best practice ( see List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions ).

There are other alternatives to eliminating greywater that allow for efficient use ; using it to irrigate plants is a common practice.

He has also played a role in providing alternatives to traditional performance practice techniques, often specifying forceful, rhythmic articulations, and amplified, non-vibrato, singing.

Sometimes alternatives to a real cricket ball may be preferred for reasons of safety, practice, availability and cost.

Coin flipping, coin tossing, cross and pile, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air to choose between two alternatives, sometimes to resolve a dispute between two parties.

Each lecture provides fundamental principles, firsthand knowledge and evidenced-based methods for critical analysis of established clinical practice standards, and comparisons to newer advanced alternatives.

If a current practice is known to be ineffective, implementing a promising alternative after weighing the alternatives may be worth the risk.

Alko is required by law to sell drinks with lower alcohol content than 4. 7 % and non-alcoholic alternatives, but in practice carries a very limited stock of low alcohol beer, cider and non-alcoholic drinks and mixers as supermarkets sell the same products at a lower price.

However, in the absence of more humane alternatives for preventing breech strike, the AVA accepts that the practice of mulesing should continue as a sheep husbandry procedure ".

The animal rights organisation PETA strongly opposes mulesing, says the practice is cruel and painful, and that more humane alternatives exist, and claim that sheep can be spared maggot infestation through more humane methods, including special diets and spray washing.

His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client – server infrastructure that characterizes the World Wide Web.

Each of the 400-series highways uses control cities, but the common Ontario practice is to use smaller, closer urban centres as alternatives to out-of-province cities.