In spite of early Roman Catholic Church prohibitions against charging interest on loans, there is some evidence that the Franciscans were permitted to begin the practice as an aid to the poor.

However, in his later years he had to pay for a locum tenens to run his medical practice while he was playing cricket and he had a reputation for treating his poorer patients without charging a fee.

The early sophists ' practice of charging money for education and providing wisdom only to those who could pay led to the condemnations made by Socrates, through Plato in his Dialogues, as well as Xenophon's Memorabilia.

Redlining is the practice of denying, or charging more for, services such as banking, insurance, access to health care, or even supermarkets, or denying access to jobs to residents in particular, often racially determined, areas.

Some people believe the practice of charging for specifications has undermined the purpose of the VESA organization.

The term maquiladora, in the Spanish language, refers to the practice of millers charging a maquila, or " miller's portion " for processing other people's grain.

( In practice, charging and discharging batteries incurs losses, so the " C " rate is more of an approximation.

Pope Sixtus V condemned the practice of charging interest as " detestable to God and man, damned by the sacred canons and contrary to Christian charity.

The practice became so extensive that some producers were doing single vineyard bottlings and charging high prices on all their holdings, regardless of whether the particular vineyard quality merited such a practice.

At first, users read the text-based ( ISO 8859-1 ) CIX messages online, but the UK's practice of charging per minute for telephone calls led to the development of off-line readers ( OLRs ).

He challenged the Southern practice of charging Blacks a poll tax to vote, but electoral practices were not changed substantially in most of the South until after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which provided federal oversight of voter registration and elections, and enforcement of the constitutional right to vote.

In the Law of Return, the State of Israel put into practice the Zionist movement's " credo " as pledged in Israel's Declaration of Independence and recognized by the League of Nations in 1922, when charging Britain with the duty of establishing a Jewish National Home, and by the United Nations within the Partition Plan of 1947 which provided for establishment of Israel as a Jewish state.

Many barefoot doctors went into private practice, operating on a fee-for-service basis and charging for medication.

The practice of towing vehicles and charging towing fees for the vehicle's release, is often euphemized or referred to as ransoming, especially by opponents of towing.

The show also ran " testimonials " of viewers who gave to Tilton's ministry and reportedly received miracles in return, a practice that would be used as the basis for a later lawsuit from donors charging Tilton's ministry with fraud.

In June 2009, Vale was one of four Liberal MPs to support a Labor move to abolish the practice of charging asylum seekers the cost of their detention.

This is the practice of charging more ( in the form of higher interest rates and fees ) for extending credit to borrowers identified by the lender as posing a greater credit risk.

It was an initiative statute that limited the California law on unfair competition, restricting private lawsuits against a company only to those where an individual is actually injured by and suffers a financial loss due to an unfair, unlawful, or fraudulent business practice and providing that otherwise only public prosecutors may file lawsuits charging unfair business practices.

In 2009, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, called his continued ownership of the newspaper " not totally rational ", saying that the industry's practice of giving away its online content when charging for it in print has been a mistake.

St. Johnstone also attracted criticism for charging visiting supporters more than home supporters, a practice that became commonplace.

The English practice of charging ' foreigners ' double taxation had existed in Cornwall for over 600 years prior to the 1836 Act and was first referenced in William de Wrotham's letter of 1198AD, published in G. R. Lewis, The Stannaries.

It can settle unfair labor practice charges unilaterally, i. e., without the agreement of the charging party.

The first incidence of a professional charging of the mound has not been identified but the practice certainly dates back to the game's early days.

In taking account of seventeen years of law practice, Adams concluded that `` no lawyer in America ever did so much business as I did '' and `` for so little profit ''.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

The practice of state-owned vehicles for use of employees on business dates back over forty years.

The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.

The location of the latter now is determined for tax purposes at the time of registration, and it is now accepted practice to consider a motor vehicle as being situated where it is garaged.

This condition will undoubtedly continue until such time as a state uniform system of evaluation is established, or through mutual agreement of the local assessing officials for a method of standard assessment practice to be adopted.

The paper affords excellent practice for students interested in the field of journalism.

The Targo is a good outfit for fun shooting or for economic wing-shooting practice, but it's tougher than it looks to run up a score on the clay birds.

Acreage in excess of the minimum is good practice as recreation areas are never too large for the future and it is often more economical to operate one large area than several small ones.

One or two practice runs should be sufficient for solo.

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.

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.

In the first subtype, the analyst ( following the practice of railroad analysis in this particular respect ) distributes both total operating costs and total annual capital costs ( including an allowance for `` cost of capital '' or `` fair rate of return '' ) among the different classes and units of service.

There are obvious reasons of convenience for this practice of excluding `` cost of capital '' from the direct apportionment of annual costs among the different classes of service -- notably, the avoidance of the controversial question what rate of return should be held to constitute `` cost of capital '' or `` fair rate of return ''.

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.

But the really controversial aspect of customer-cost imputation arises because of the cost analyst's frequent practice of including, not just those costs that can be definitely earmarked as incurred for the benefit of specific customers but also a substantial fraction of the annual maintenance and capital costs of the secondary ( low-voltage ) distribution system -- a fraction equal to the estimated annual costs of a hypothetical system of minimum capacity.

With a few important and a few more unimportant exceptions, no expression can be deemed le mot juste for its context, because each was very probably the only expression that long-established practice and ease of rapid recitation would allow.

Once many significant phrases are found in theory or in recurrent practice to provide for prosodic necessity, they are not to be defended for their semantic properties in isolated contexts.

He did this by the charming practice of buying up used electric blankets for $5 to $10 from survivors of patients who had died, reconditioning them, and selling them at $185 each.

This is true for two reasons: because Communism is both doctrinally, and in practice, antithetical to these conditions ; ;

In practice the law had little effect, but it did signal political support for abolishing slavery in the Confederacy