universal practice

However, it is by no means a universal practice, even when such preparatory works exist.

Keeping track of a player's pace is not, however, a universal practice.

He said, though, that until the late 1980's, it was not universal practice to do so.

The medical profession was about to be excluded by its ignorance from an almost universal practice.

He said parking fees were almost a universal practice.

His discoveries led to the universal practice of surgical antisepsis.

If there is, it is a particular of the denomination in question, and not a universal practice.

But the effectiveness of such supervision is questioned and it is not universal practice.

And because it's so efficient, it's the system which has come into virtually universal practice in modern computers.

The shield against the stingings of conscience is the universal practice, or our contemporaries.

It is universal practice that a winner is then selected from the number of individuals who will have got the correct answer.

The use of excessive noise was a universal practice in association with variations in the custom.

In the matter of address, the universal practice is the phrase "Mr Chairman".

Virtually no one supports the universal practice of allowing youngsters to drop out upon reaching a specified age.

Moreover, he said, it is almost universal practice for the managing agent to file the application on behalf of the co-op's board.

This is effectively prevented by the pernicious but universal practice in schools of "tracking" students according to presumed ability levels.

Despite calls for reform, the nearly universal practice of fractional-reserve banking has remained in the United States.

It is an almost universal practice of families like ours to protect the land from erosion and to replant another crop immediately after harvest.

Demanding signatures as evidence of attendance is not the universal practice in the parliaments of Member States.

"What, it isn't the universal practice?

At the time the English translation began its publication in individual monthly issues (1996), flipping was an almost universal practice for translated manga.

The samplers range across several cultures and a few centuries and reveal universal practices and local permutations.

These include antibiotic-resistant bacteria believed to have evolved through the nearly universal practice of giving food animals low doses of antibiotics to enhance their growth.

'Self-pity' for misfortunes real or imaginary is in some measure, practically a universal practice."

A related topic is the almost universal practice of swabing an injection site with ethanol prior the injection.