Sentences with phrase «increasingly widespread practice»

Breed bans and the increasingly widespread practice by insurance companies to deny homeowners» coverage for certain dog breeds virtually guarantee euthanasia of otherwise adoptable dogs by shelters and humane societies.

«Glyphosate residues are found in wheat due to the increasingly widespread practice of staging and desiccation of wheat right before harvest,» the researchers wrote.

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• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

The report found that «widespread public awareness of the damage caused by the overuse and misuse of standardized testing, coupled with effective grass - roots organizing by parents, teachers, students and their allies, is increasingly producing positive changes in state and district testing practices.»