But this practice of informed consent is relatively new.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Cracks are appearing in the wall of silence surrounding the secret practice of extraordinary rendition as prisoners are coming forward to tell of their ordeals.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

human rights investigators applaud moves made by President Barack Obama in pledging to close Guantanamo Bay and stopping the practice of torture and extraordinary rendition.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

The Food and Drug Administration does not regulate the practice of medicine in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

The insurance industry would come under new regulation under the bill, which would ban the practice of denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

With much of the tribal region dominated by several Taliban factions, the government is turning to an old practice of striking agreements with local tribal militias, called lashkars,to handle security.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"Countless, countless moments of awakening led me ultimately to the path of Islam, and within that, to the practice of Sufism, or Tasawuf,which for me is intricately united with Islam."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

"The very practice of dangling a toy or other premium to get kids to pester their parents to go into the restaurant and buy food,junky or nutritious, is unethical and,we believe,illegal."

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"So my suggestion is that there should be a type of mechanism that United Nations aid, United Nations cooperation and United Nations support to the democratic regimes must be linked, should be linked with this protection of human rights and particularly getting rid of this practice of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and secret detention centers."

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

In May,the World Health Assembly approved a global code of practice on the international recruitment of health workers.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Next year, the Chinese plan to launch a small space laboratory to practice docking of spacecraft in orbit.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Mister Miller found that a literate society generally tends to practice many forms of reading.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Today's thinking is that short periods of practice are better.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

But like many people of the day, it was a practice to snip out little mementos of events, and this particular coat suffered that same fate, in that Alfonso Don would clip pieces away from the coat and give it to people who came to visit and to see the coat.

VOA: special.2009.07.24