Sentences with phrase «ordinary practical purposes»

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

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The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

[W] e can not find indications in statements of its purpose or in the practical problems of enforcement sufficient to overcome the ordinary meaning, in English or through ordinary interpretive practice, of the words that it wrote.