We are always led to infer that this is a new and reprehensible practice, a mark of a degenerate age.

"It is part of a coordinated attack on this reprehensible practice," he said.

Wayne Pacelle, president of The Humane Society, called the law's passage "a major moment in the effort to rid our nation of this barbaric and reprehensible practice."

Voter suppression is a reprehensible practice.

A Massachusetts congressman, Edward Markey, has taken the eminently sensible step of introducing legislation that would ban this utterly reprehensible practice.

Welcome to extraordinary rendition, a reprehensible practice in which people are kidnapped by the U.S. government and sent off to countries that specialize in the evil arts of torture.

Here in Europe, it is by means of a common agency that we are combating the reprehensible practice of doping in sport.

With this directive in place, reprehensible practice by public entities will be the exception.

As the Internet is no respecter of national frontiers cooperation between Member States to tackle this reprehensible practice is vital.

"The vast majority of these refugees have been brutally driven from their homes by a reprehensible practice known as 'ethnic cleansing.' "