Sentences with phrase «many practical purposes»

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.

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

But Caret has a more practical purpose in mind for the Boeing (ba) spaceship, including leisure travel and vacation.

«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.

«The recipient essentially owns the world — every publicly held company on the planet (for practical purposes),» Roth said via email.

It had a practical purpose.

[3] And eight well - functioning, modest - sized, local bond markets amount to the same thing as a «regional market» for most practical purposes.

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.

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.

Official statements notwithstanding, for all practical purposes Asians in higher education today no longer count as «adding to diversity.»

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 life?

But for all practical purposes no one would know the difference.»

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.

For all practical purposes the Emmanuel Movement as such came to a close with Worcester's death in 1940.

Having, therefore, lived for years with Biblical scholars as my friends and colleagues and in the classroom having dealt with students, trying to gain a coherent and usable understanding of the Bible for practical purposes, I have dared the attempt to put together developments of ideas which the separate Biblical disciplines leave apart.

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

For practical purposes, this globe has become much smaller.

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.

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.

But for the practical purposes of preaching and teaching, Wesley's formulations offered a third way that won the hearts and minds of many.

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.

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?

For practical purposes, the individual sociologist, who has special intents in mind, may have to concentrate on a problem or problems of a given period of the history of civilization and religion, in a specific area or group.

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.

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

It is time to realize that this objectifying knowledge, while useful for many practical purposes, distorts all reality.

For all practical purposes, this means the implementation of worldwide energy conservation and renewable energy technologies.

The university was to «advance the worldly practical purposes of men and the benefit of society.»

For example, we would need to note that natural resources are, for practical purposes, infinite.

The body is part of the material field, governed by laws which for all practical purposes are necessary.

For ordinary practical purposes this strict definition of mutuality need not be insisted on.

James, for all practical purposes, had nothing in view but the individual and thought he had found a method to enable individuals to make decisions; Dewey believed democracy would suffice to make those decisions for us.

Hence the President is entitled to, and for all practical purposes has received, carte blanche.