non-practising

The last most publicised case was in tsarist Russia in 1911-13 when Menahem Mendel Beilis, a foreman in a brickyard and a non-practising Jew, was charged with the murder of a 13-year-old boy, Andrei Yushchinsky.

Letters: The Beilis blood libel 2011

A non-practising Anglican, he says he is attracted by certain tenets of Buddhism and believes the Taliban could teach us a thing or two about family values. [emphasis added]

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Some professional context before I comment: I'm a qualified although currently non-practising barrister in the Bar of England and Wales; I have an LLM in IP and IT law, and I am a visiting lecturer in IP law at the University of Exeter.

Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again 2010

And for those particularly invested in the relative privilege of being a white American it is not difficult to see how the election of a black president – with an African name and a foreign father who was a non-practising Muslim – could become a focus for discontent.

For white Americans, things aren't what they used to be Gary Younge 2010

Well, "Mostyn Neil Hamilton (being a non-practising barrister called to the bar in 1979) supplied legal services to 'SN', and in connection with the supply of such services held himself out as a barrister".

Diary 2010

But without them, there'd be nowhere barristers, including non-practising ones like me and struggling pupils in search of tenancies, doing voluntary work perhaps, could work with all the essential legal tools available to them.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

As a non-practising Catholic, I also took the Opus Dei story a little bit personally I have to say Marcia.

Labour's Writ-iculous Defence Jeff 2009

A non-practising Anglican, he says he is attracted by certain tenets of Buddhism and believes the Taliban could teach us a thing or two about family values. emphasis added

Sunday self-indulgence 2009

One of those wounded soldiers was a handsome water polo champion, Captain George Lanyi (b. 1915), a non-practising Hungarian Jew whose name had been changed to Lane for security reasons.

Rothschild, Dame Miriam. 2009

But without them, there'd be nowhere barristers, including non-practising ones like me and struggling pupils in search of tenancies, doing voluntary work perhaps, could work with all the essential legal tools available to them.

Inner and Middle Temple library merger: poll 2009