I learned, for example, that he made a practice of yapping at dogs he encountered and, in winter, of sprinkling salt on the icy pavement to scarify their feet.

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

The Imperial German Cavalry, while as colourful and traditional as any in peacetime appearance, had adopted a practice of falling back on infantry support when any substantial opposition was encountered.

The first of these two methods is more commonly encountered in practice because many industrial systems have many continuous systems components, including mechanical, fluid, biological and analog electrical components, with a few digital controllers.

" Enough studies have now accumulated to suggest that the inclusion of hypnotic procedures may be beneficial in the management and treatment of a wide range of conditions and problems encountered in the practice of medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Many Westerners who first encountered the practice believed it was a sign of worship, but kowtowing does not necessarily have religious overtones in traditional Chinese culture.

In 1717 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu observed the practice in Istanbul and attempted to popularize it in Britain, but encountered considerable resistance.

In Italy he encountered the Italian overture and opera buffa, both of which deeply affected the evolution of his own practice.

Thus a regular space encountered in practice can usually be assumed to be T < sub > 3 </ sub >, by replacing the space with its Kolmogorov quotient.

" Bradley said that in 27 years on the Boston force he had never encountered the practice.

Examples of such formulas encountered in practice can be very large, for example with 100, 000 variables and 1, 000, 000 conjuncts.

The dissolution resulted in few modifications to the practice of religion in England's parish churches ; in general the English religious reforms of the 1530s corresponded in few respects to the precepts of Protestant Reformers, and encountered much popular hostility when they did.

In practice, the most common usage encountered in academic and popular writing describes land animals roughly larger than a human which are not ( solely ) domesticated.

Emboli of cardiac origin are also frequently encountered in clinical practice.

When while teaching Bruckner encountered instances where practice departed from rules, he would say in Austrian dialect: " Look, gentlemen, this is the rule.

The pressure dependence of the rate constant for condensed-phase reactions ( i. e., when reactants and products are solids or liquid ) is usually sufficiently weak in the range of pressures normally encountered in industry that it is neglected in practice.

In clinical practice otosclerosis is encountered about twice as frequently in females as in males, but this does not reflect the true sex ratio.

Less formally than the theoretical distinctions mentioned above, two main types of signals encountered in practice are analog and digital.

Most commutative operations encountered in practice are also associative.

In practice, constant releases could be encountered at river estuaries, where fresh water of low density encounters denser sea water and at high tide, the sea is pushing into the estuary.

Harvard Dean Henry Aaron Yeomans, later Lowell's biographer, frankly admitted that he and Lowell as administrators found a way to accommodate themselves to the Overseer's stated principle: " The matter was settled in theory, and in practice no serious difficulties were encountered.

This practice is also encountered occasionally in text-based segments of graphical games.

Thus, this practice is commonly encountered in the praxis of quantitative finance.

While working on Winternight Tragedies, the band encountered problems with collaboration, distance and lack of practice.

In practice aesthetic judgement refers to the sensory contemplation or appreciation of an object ( not necessarily an art object ), while artistic judgement refers to the recognition, appreciation or criticism of art or an art work.

Likely the most extreme criticism of the practice was given by Sun sports columnist John Steadman suggested that Baltimore forfeit any game where a fan shouts " O!

This work contains Marx's criticism of materialism ( for being contemplative ), idealism ( for reducing practice to theory ) and overall, criticising philosophy for putting abstract reality above the physical world.

Before the advent of copyright, anonymous and pseudonymous publication was a common practice in the sixteenth century publishing world, and a passage in the Arte of English Poesie ( 1589 ), the leading work of literary criticism of the Elizabethan period and an anonymously published work itself, mentions in passing that literary figures in the court who wrote " commendably well " circulated their poetry only among their friends, " as if it were a discredit for a gentleman to seem learned " ( Book 1, Chapter 8 ).

" The neo-Aristotelian view threatens the study of rhetoric by restraining it to such a limited field, ignoring many critical applications of rhetorical theory, criticism, and practice.

Much to the criticism of his peers, he continued this practice decades later, even after he was elected Prime Minister.

Li made statements that practitioners ' response to criticism showed their hearts and " would separate the false disciples from the true ones ", also indicating that publicly defending the practice was a righteous act and an important aspect of Falun Gong cultivation.

Nijinsky writes of the importance of feeling as opposed to reliance on reason and logic alone, and he denounces the practice of art criticism as being nothing more than a way for those who practice it to indulge their own egos rather than focusing on what the artist was trying to say.

Robin Campbell, a translator of Seneca's letters, writes that the " stock criticism of Seneca right down the centuries been ... the apparent contrast between his philosophical teachings and his practice.

As the experimentation on animals increased, especially the practice of vivisection, so did criticism and controversy.

* C. Goldstein: Visual fact over verbal fiction: a study of the Carracci and the criticism, theory, and practice of art in Renaissance and baroque Italy, Cambridge 1988.

Among various points of criticism of the Sōka Gakkai is its teaching of members for praying for material benefit as well as spiritual development in daily life: " This emphasis on benefit has been viewed with great suspicion by some Gakkai critics in the West ".. SGI clarifies the benefit of the practice as: “ Gakkai members learned to chant for vitality, courage, and mental and physical health, adequate food and housing, a decent job, a good spouse and a happy family ..

The paper's criticism of Smith was focused on three main points: ( 1 ) the opinion that Smith had once been a true prophet, but had become a fallen prophet because of his introduction of plural marriage, exaltation and other controversial doctrines ; ( 2 ) the opinion that as church president and Nauvoo mayor, Smith held too much power and desired to create a theocracy ( see also Council of Fifty, Theodemocracy ); and ( 3 ) the belief that Smith was corrupting young women by forcing, coercing or introducing them to the practice of plural marriage.

Netanyahu proved to be less hard-line in practice than he made himself out to be rhetorically, and felt pressured by the United States and others to enter negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization and Yasser Arafat, despite his harsh criticism of the Oslo accords and hawkish stance in comparison to Labour.

PNAS has received occasional criticism for its practice ( sometimes known as news embargo ) of releasing papers to science journalists as much as a week before making them available to the general public — according to critics, this allows mainstream news outlets to misrepresent or exaggerate the implications of experimental findings before the scientific community is able to respond.

Changes of this sort are common when adapting any text from British to American editions and vice versa, but in the case of the Harry Potter books, this standard practice has occasionally drawn criticism from readers who feel that the British English adds flavour to the series.

A criticism levied against surgeons who perform SRS deals with the rare non-SOC practice requiring patients to divorce their spouse before the surgery is performed.

In textual criticism, eclecticism is the practice of examining a wide number of text witnesses and selecting the variant that seems best.

' Betts writes that ' hrough his books of poetry, his literary and cultural criticism and his rich range of essays on diverse topics, Davey has been a major figure involved in introducing the idea and practice of postmodernism to writers in Canada.

The group had already established a practice of self criticism, under which members were asked to undergo their own personal " ideological revolution " by confessing personal inadequacies in cultlike confession sessions.

In the U. S., mobile phone companies have come under heavy criticism for this anti-competitive practice, and the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) is considering limits to prevent price gouging, such as requiring the fees to be prorated.

During this period, Hōnen taught the new nembutsu-only practice to many people in Kyoto society and amassed a substantial following, but also increasingly came under criticism by the Buddhist establishment in Kyoto.

The sole criticism of CSIS levelled by the Commission was that the agency should do more to critically examine information provided by regimes which practice torture.