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

Avoiding the costly alternative of attending a law school, Coolidge followed the more common practice of the time, apprenticing with a local law firm, Hammond & Field, and reading law with them.

This ensemble amounted to a practice of reading and writing that Stiegler derived from the writings of Epictetus.

However, Western occult practice mostly includes the use of astrology ( calculating the influence of heavenly bodies ), bibliomancy ( reading random passages from a book, such as Liber Legis or the I Ching ), tarot ( a deck of 78 cards, each with symbolic meaning, usually laid out in a meaningful pattern ), and geomancy ( a method of making random marks on paper or in earth that results in a combination of sixteen patterns ).

In addition to some language derived from the New Testament in the liturgy itself ( e. g., the Trisagion may be based on Apocalypse 4: 8, and the beginning of the " Hymn of Praise " draws upon Luke 2: 14 ), the reading of extended passages from the New Testament is a practice common to almost all Christian worship, liturgical or not.

The language syntax uses reverse Polish notation, which makes the order of operations unambiguous, but reading a program requires some practice, because one has to keep the layout of the stack in mind.

A penpal relationship is often used to practice reading and writing in a foreign language, to improve literacy, to learn more about other countries and life-styles, and to make friendships.

Included in the discipline is the practice of deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts, and the cultural context of writing, including the methods with which writing and books were produced, and the history of scriptoria.

During practice four days before the Super Bowl, he wore a hand band reading " Acupuncture ".

In the modern era, adherents of Orthodox Judaism practice Torah reading according to a set procedure they believe has remained unchanged in the two thousand years since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem ( 70 CE ).

In the 19th and 20th centuries CE, new movements such as Reform Judaism and Conservative Judaism have made adaptations to the practice of Torah reading, but the basic pattern of Torah reading has usually remained the same:

This scribal practice has its roots both in the public reading of the Targum and in the private study requirement.

* Tracking is the practice of reading physical evidence in pursuing animals

# That by retroactively extending copyright terms, Congress had violated the requirements of the Constitution's Copyright Clause, which gives Congress the following power: " To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries " ( emphasis added ) Plaintiffs argued that by reading this formulation so as to allow for any number of retroactive extensions, Congress could in practice guarantee an unlimited period of copyright protection, thus thwarting the intent of the clause.

* Simulator to practice reading and interpreting one-hundredth of a millimetre outside micrometer

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* Simulator to practice reading and interpreting ten-thousandth of an inch outside micrometer

During reading workshop, the teacher models a whole-group strategy lesson and then gives students large blocks of time to read and to practice the strategy.

In practice, many children are exposed to both " Phonic " and " Whole Language " methods, coupled with reading programs that combine both elements.

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Usually after some practice, many students ' reading speed can be significantly increased.

The extraordinary contrast between civil procedure where there are no examinations for discovery, for example in Australia and England, and North American practice can be discerned by reading an extract from the New South Wales Law Reform Commission Report in 1978.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

* Self-bondage, the practice of tying oneself up for pleasure

Such a practice through lifelong work towards oneself is called as observing the Mahavrata (" Great Vows ").

* Tanuki-gakure – The practice of climbing a tree and camouflaging oneself within the foliage.

Theurgy ( from Greek θεουργία ) describes the practice of rituals, sometimes seen as magical in nature, performed with the intention of invoking the action or evoking the presence of one or more gods, especially with the goal of uniting with the divine, achieving henosis, and perfecting oneself.

Another Tibetan ritual practice related to death is phowa ( transference of one's consciousness ), which can be done by oneself at the moment of death or by ritual specialists, phowa-lamas, on behalf of the dead.

The phrase Torah Judaism implies a belief and practice of Judaism that is based on the inclusion of the entire Torah, Tanakh, Talmud, and all the rabbinic authorities that followed as sources of conducting oneself in life, and on the premise that the Torah emanates directly from God as revealed at Mount Sinai.

This was a useful way to reduce the cost of practice, or resupply oneself if control of the battlefield after a battle was retained.

The effort that one puts into practice Gurdjieff referred to as The Work or Work on oneself.

Some states provide criminal penalties for falsely holding oneself out to the public as an Attorney and the unauthorized practice of law by a non-Attorney.

Although seemingly against the Middle Way, this practice is to experience the negative karma of both oneself and all other sentient beings and, as such is seen to be of benefit.

* Self-acceptance: the practice of owning truths regarding one ’ s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors ; of being kind toward oneself with respect to them ; and of being “ for ” oneself in a basic sense.

This practice of taking on a dominant partner to proctect oneself from more forcible rape and violence is sometimes referred to as " protective pairing ".

The practice is used when a prisoner is considered dangerous to oneself or to others, is suspected of organizing or being engaged in illegal activities outside of the prison, or, in the case of a prisoner such as a pedophile or witness, is at a high risk of being harmed by another inmate or inmates.

Edgeplay may involve obtaining and scening with various anesthesia-related paraphernalia-usually anesthesia masks for breathplay, the acquisition of anesthetics for anesthetizing others or being anesthetized oneself, and the occupation of a medical setting or environment for the same practice.

Practice manuals prescribe the practice of mindfulness of body, feelings, thoughts and dharmas in oneself and others, out of which an understanding of the non-differentiation of self and other is said to arise.

In the case of Shinto, the difficulty is the reconciliation of the pantheon of Japanese gods, as well as with the myriad spirits associated with places, shrines or objects, with the Buddhist doctrine that one should not concern oneself with any religious practice save the pursuit of enlightenment.

Breslover Hasidim still follow this practice today, which is known as hitbodedut ( literally, " to make oneself be in solitude ").

But one also has to purify oneself by ongoing practice.

While Confucianism also examines the negative aspect of human nature, thus the necessity to habituate oneself with ritual, the purpose of the practice of ritual and attainment of ren is not focused on restricting the darker aspects of human nature but developing the " fundamental goodness ", i. e., the duan of human beings that Mencius writes of.

* clearing underlying personality conflicts and centering oneself and ones spiritual journey in clear, well conceived and sustainable values ( that is, thinking of Brahmacharya as an ongoing practice of ' clearing ' analogous to resolving personality complexes and conflicts in psychotherapy )

Whips can be used on oneself as part of a religious practice, or on consenting persons during BDSM activities.

Creative limitation is the practice of purposely limiting oneself to the ends of achieving a novel effect or goal that is not otherwise possible using conventional, readily accessible, methods.