Sentences with phrase «m practical purposes»

It is well understood, of course, that prime ministers are not just accountable to their party members: they also need to retain the formal confidence of the House of Commons (and, for m practical purposes, their cabinet colleagues).

As stated previously, at one time there was a practical purpose for these procedures.

So I'd like to consider the nature and purpose of law firm content — what is its practical purpose and point?

Not exact matches

Not long after the Supreme Court deemed Aereo's service «for all practical purposes a traditional cable system,» the company, in a desperate last bid for survival, pulled an about - face and argued that it should be allowed to operate like one.

But it might not always be easy to find a fun or exciting niche that's practical for business purposes.

For practical purposes, it's left Arkansans who want to try medical marijuana out of luck for the foreseeable future.

This classic career book may advertise that it's practical, but I used in it when I was 21 years old to help me find my purpose at the time.

«He became John Lee Muhammad... The child that you saw a moment ago, Lee Malvo, was gone, did not exist for all practical purposes.»

«Aereo's system is, for all practical purposes, identical to a cable system,» he said.

«That makes it practical to refuel them in space and use them for other purposes, or simply use them as a shuttle to run down and grab a spacecraft that you might be so heavy you could only get it to [low - Earth orbit], and then take it literally anywhere else in the solar system,» Bruno added.

As I've regularly noted in recent months, our immediate outlook is essentially flat neutral for practical purposes, though we're partial to a layer of tail - risk hedges, such as out - of - the - money index put options, given that a market decline on the order of even 5 % would almost certainly be sufficient to send our measures of market internals into a negative condition.

It is nothing but a number, no different than 999,999,999,999 for all practical purposes, but we humans are not practical creatures: we attach importance to all kinds of silly things, round numbers chief amongst them.

While this may at first seem reasonable, for practical purposes, it's not effectively debt for two reasons.

I enjoyed the resources industry because it really epitomizes the concepts of practical design: you end up engineering things on the run to be «fit for purpose», making do with potentially less equipment and materials than you'd prefer in some fairly remote and challenging environments.

For all practical purposes, stochastics indicators are rather unreliable when dealing with a powerful bull market.

For all practical purposes, the default risk is negligible.

As I've regularly noted in recent months, our immediate outlook is essentially flat neutral for practical purposes, though we're partial to a layer of tail - risk hedges.

But, by a preponderance of the evidence I can conclude that for all practical purposes, Santa is fake.

If that were the case, one could say God exists, but for all practical purposes here on Earth he doesn't.

Is there a legal or practical purpose for the law to concern itself with a union like marriage if it is not about having children / family lifIs there a legal or practical purpose for the law to concern itself with a union like marriage if it is not about having children / family lifis not about having children / family life?

Part of our purpose was to give one another permission to ask very nosy and practical questions about what «worked.»

However Heb 5:9 is pretty clear cut as the words eternal and salvation are conflated in this verse which I think for all practical purposes equates to eternal life.

The institutional church's vision for all practical purposes is the «pastors» vision and all the church is supposed to get on board to fulfill that vision.

Robert Louis Stevenson said once that there are two kinds of people, one kind «inclining to think all things rather wrong,» the other inclining to suppose all sorts of conduct «right enough for practical purposes.»

But for practical purposes it is now the increase of goods and services rather than the good of humanity as defined in any other way that governs policy and action.

The modern study of economics was started by Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher who emphasised the practical and gave almost no thought to men's higher purposes.

But we are sufficiently alike to be able to assume for all practical purposes a community of experience.

I analyzed the superficial plausibility of Perry's example before in pointing out that it is borrowed from the macroscopic realm which is for all practical purposes deterministic; the predictability of any macroscopic particle is only approximate and does not alter the basic contingencies of the elementary microphysical events of which a «particle» consists.

At the national denominational level, The Controversy is over for all practical purposes.

But however this goes, it is clear that even a religiously informed practical reason must have some theory, knowledge or intuition about these needs if it is to serve the purposes of a practical theology

There's a big difference between carrying a gun, which serves the sole purpose of killing, and a dagger, which has many practical uses.

Accordingly, the first precept of practical reason is that «good is to be done and promoted, and evil is to be avoided» (637, emphasis deleted), which means that the natural law is somehow derived from the comprehensive good defined by the final end or divine purpose.

She was, for all practical purposes, invisible.

Particle accelerators and all the new telescopes and devices in space and on earth that probe the Universe are expensive things that may also have no practical purpose.

It makes no sense because the very primitive actual occasions constitutive of the piano and of its immediate physical environment have a capacity for novel adjustment of feeling which is virtually nil, which is, for all practical purposes, nil.

In our cosmic epoch, Whitehead opines, direct, immediate objectification is confined, for all practical purposes, to contiguous occasions.

But much of it is also important for many practical purposes.

You dismissed one as not being practical (although practical in that context meant for war purposes) but didn't say anything about the others.

We may classify secondary school students for functional purposes into such groups as «practical arts,» «commercial,» «general,» and «college preparatory,» but there is nothing to prevent students from later changing to another group which appears to fit better their abilities and occupational plans.

For practical social purposes people may be grouped according to the relevant characteristics.

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

There is probably no greater cause for the ease in which believers are being misled by the teachings of others (however well - intended and sincere such teachings may be), than the fact that they have for all practical purposes never been taught how to rightly divide the word of truth themselves.

This vocational emphasis affects not only the manifestly practical fields of study, such as the technical and professional disciplines, but even the «pure» liberal arts and sciences, which have commonly been represented as the studies appropriate for the nurture of the free man — studies whose justification and worth lie solely in themselves and not in any extrinsic purposes.

But what more is needed to persuade us that, at least for practical purposes, education is a universal biological function, co-existent with the totality of the living world?

They recognized that the GNP was far from an ideal measure of economic well being, but they affirmed that it was good enough for practical purposes.

This happened, for example, when the Supreme Court of the United States, in a ruling that helped to precipitate the Civil War, held in Dred Scott v. Sandford that blacks were noncitizens» and, for all practical purposes, nonpersons» possessed of no rights that white people must respect.

There was thus a practical purpose in pursuing theology.

It is the purpose of this chapter to discuss the interpretations gleaned from the writings of the old schools of Muslims — mystics and rationalists, including both the theologians and the philosophers — who are not usually regarded by the orthodox school as strict Muslims, but whose influence on Muslim thought and practical religious life is felt even today.

As Wayne Meeks has argued, «This letter's most comprehensive purpose is the shaping of a Christian phronesis, a practical moral reasoning that is «conformed to Christ's death» in hope of his resurrection.»

As a result of this act at least one institution of higher learning was established for these practical purposes in each state.