1.  Given the power of his pulpit, the president can do more than endorse best practices.

2.  Not all gardening enthusiasts so readily endorse the practice of eating almost everything that grows, however.

3.  Some public policy analysts warned, however, that many Americans might prefer a federal government that bends over backward to avoid endorsing religious practices.

4.  Statisticians, on the other hand, have endorsed the practice of statistical sampling.

5.  The last leader of Al Azhar had issued a religious decree proclaiming that Islam endorsed the practice of clitoridectomy.

6.  The national health minister, Dr. Nkosazana Zuma, herself a Zulu princess, endorses the practice.

7.  Its proponents argue that Islam endorses the practice.

8.  Local military chief Col. Songko Purnomo said that he knew of corrupt government officials who endorsed the practices.