Sentences with phrase «academic exercise»

Although seemingly self - evident, this stance is often absent from law practice when matters are approached as academic exercises.

Standing explicitly between academy, church and society, those in pastoral theology know intimately the limits of academic exercises, and they know the limits of knowledge apart from context.

This was all a fairly academic exercise for me up until the 2015 election.

Given that we create the gods and assign to them the personalities we choose, the question of where does one god stop and another god start is a purely academic exercise.

But this isn't just some interesting academic exercise.

By partnering with experts in an area ~ we are solving the realistic issues that academic exercises yield.

And the simplest reason poetry can be a rich academic exercise?

Writing university essays is sure to give a student an edge over others who neglect this essential academic exercise.

These days, with the climate shifting, that subject is not a purely academic exercise.

As some note, this becomes a purely academic exercise in correlation, as the Canadian economy recently experienced consecutive quarters of contraction (the introductory economics textbook definition of a recession), meaning the arrows are pointing in the same direction as that of the price of oil.

This is no mere academic exercise for Hartshorne, but a strongly personal view that leads him to state:

Swine Science Online is an educational and training program for future pork professionals who will help benefit the pork industry by inspiring career interest through academic exercise and application.

This is a somewhat academic exercise since it treats the whole country as a single constituency, when in practice the transfers would take place seat by seat — but it does underline how closely matched the two largest parties are in public opinion.

While running the DICE model (and similar integrated assessment models) may be a useful academic exercise in anticipation of solving these very serious problems, the results at this time are nowhere near reliable enough to justify trillions of dollars of government policies and burdensome regulations.

Is knowledge management or «KM» an irrelevant academic exercise?

It would be a grave oversight to dismiss these debates as academic exercises far removed from the real concerns of life and faith, because, as John Stackhouse, Jr.....

This little academic exercise should help us see that a good deal of talk about education as primarily a «bringing out» of latent knowledge, with consequences for the entire process of instruction, is beside the point.

What might have been a technical academic exercise in a Wittenberg lecture hall rapidly escalated into a fundamental questioning of the theological underpinning of Western Christianity.

Adebayo added that his party won the election in free and fair manner and that the APC should stop engaging in fruitless academic exercise.

We're not engaged in some theoretical or academic exercise here, we're trying to maximise the Labour vote.»

Then the researchers gave the students the choice to either work on a tough academic exercise that they were told was designed to improve future test - taking skills or to procrastinate on an entertaining — but unproductive — puzzle.

Nicole Wermer's arrangement of Marcel Breuer's Bauhaus Cesca chairs, each of which had a luxuriant fur coat draped across its back, felt like a particularly chilly academic exercise.

Echoes of abstraction's past, like Katy Moran's creamy easel paintings recently, can easily turn into pleasant academic exercises.

To see Still engaged in drawing from a life model, a basic academic exercise, lends new irony to Pollock's later comment that «Still makes the rest of us look academic.»

Through some 55 works, the exhibition presents the dazzling development of Picasso's drawings over a 30 - year period — from the precocious academic exercises of his youth in the 1890s to the virtuoso works of the early 1920s, including the radical innovations of cubism and collage.

I'll third the assertion of Figen and «other Gavin»; blogging can be a way of disseminating information to a large group of people rather quickly, but it is most effective in cases like this where it is paired with the traditional, rigorous academic exercise of peer - review.

I note the court's language in Warth, in pertinent part, relative to criminal [cases], «Of course, pleadings must be something more than an ingenious academic exercise in the conceivable.

Facebook says the study is «nonsense», and it probably is: it's an interesting academic exercise rather than a rock - solid indicator of Facebook's future.

All this advice is great, but when you are confronted with the situation of a family court judge imposing a full no - contact restraining order, with no reasons given or existent, from your child, then «fighting back» against parental alienation is a useless academic exercise.

But even though Day for Night has its share of politically charged works — with American artists like Nari Ward, Dash Snow, Matthew Day Jackson, Jamal Cyrus, Robert A. Pruitt, and Dawolu Jabari Anderson offering overt criticism of nationalism, the war on terror, manifest destiny, and racism — a general preoccupation with art history undermines the exhibition's transgressive potential, rendering it a series of academic exercises.

[12] The problematizing of mission was neither an artificial act nor a mere academic exercise, but a natural and spontaneous outcome of the period.

The print edition of July's Vanity Fair doesn't hit newsstands until Tuesday, June 9, so until then, any speculation about the effect of the Internet response on sales is a purely academic exercise.

I want you to create a friggin» majestic portfolio report that's so complex & removed from reality, it will hypnotize you into believing it's purely an interesting academic exercise.

Some might quibble with the detail, or think this a somewhat academic exercise.

«At a recent MBA in legal practice workshop, facilitated by Insider Charles Christian... it emerged that the subject of KM had become so strongly associated with search engines, black letter law, documentary precedents and — in the words of one delegate — «had been hijacked by professional support lawyers» that it was increasingly viewed by partners and fee earners as an irrelevant academic exercise.»

Your business plan is not an academic exercise or a hoop to jump through, it's a living document that shows investors, advisors and business partners that you are serious about making your dream reali...

After all, it's not an academic exercise; there's a bonus check for each employee at the end of every four - week game that meets profitability guidelines.

Khan Academy, based in Mountain View, is known for its free web - based library of instructional videos and academic exercises.

Reimagining how private prisons operate and are held accountable does not need to be an academic exercise.