Combined with the lex mercatoria, which was a set of codes and customary practices governing trading, provided a reasonable basis for the economic governance of the towns.

The financial crises in East Asia have led to widespread discussion about failed corporate practices governing lending and borrowing.

There is an Association for Holotropic Breathwork International which promotes professional and ethical practices governing Holotropic Breathwork.

Indeed there was a code of practice governing the dangerous procedure - largely to avoid suffocation accidents.

Deep commitment takes the form of a 'paradigm', meaning both a set of very broad assumptions whose falsity is almost unthinkable and a set of institutional practices governing the current conduct of science.

They were to inquire, among other matters, 'into practices and procedures governing the conduct of local authority business in Great Britain, with particular reference to:

Merit accrues when one's interactions with the teacher are imbued with such reverence in the form of guru devotion, a code of practices governing them that derives from Indian sources.

There are no statutory controls or codes of practice governing the description of products apart from the British Standard on terms used in disinfection which is widely ignored.

It is simply designed to harmonise existing practice governing the granting of patents in Europe, and in this context, more stringent criteria are to be adopted, particularly for the granting of patents.

It is the responsibility of politicians and of the whole institutional system to put law into daily practice governing the life of European citizens.