Sentences with phrase «practical purpose by»

They look great in vibrant plastics or with ribbon tied around wicker handles, whilst serving a functional and practical purpose by hiding all those bits without a home.

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For all practical intents and purposes, a significant fraction of his base responds to foreign crises by asking WWJD.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 the Benedictus Trust website explains: «In his book The Idea of a University Bl John Henry Cardinal Newman asserts that the primary purpose of a university should be to teach theoretical knowledge, following the distinction made by Aristotle in the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics between moral and intellectual virtues; the moral life concerned with practical knowledge and the intellectual life primarily concerned with theoretical knowledge — that is, «knowledge for the sake of itself».

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

Sometimes I think the church (read: the institution, «Christianity Incorporated») is afraid of what everyone else would think if they stripped themselves of the artificial crap, if they stopped — for all practical purposes — encouraging other to lie about their emotional state (which, by extension, means they're encouraging others to SIN).

They were composed not by historians, with what we like to call scientific detachment, but by Christian preachers and teachers, and for certain practical purposes.

For most practical purposes the behavior of the stone can be discussed adequately in the simpler terms provided by the science of mechanics.

Browning's central purpose is to show that all authentic Christian theology is governed by practical interests.

So, although for practical purposes our lack of intuitive certainties is much as Peirce says, theoretically we can say what we mean by definite relations and definite terms, and this seems an advantage.

She concludes by invoking the probabilistic criterion that the «rights of an uncertain subject are automatically uncertain rights,» and, therefore, for all practical purposes do not exist — or at least do not have the same status as the rights of those unequivocally recognized as persons.

Burger's statement can only mean that the court sees itself empowered by our history and tradition to forbid the people and their elected representatives from discussing, for any practical purpose, issues that might raise questions about the meaning and intention of the religion clause of the First Amendment.

By creating a school environment that integrates academic, artistic and practical disciplines, the Austin Waldorf School cultivates a love of learning, creative thinking, a sympathetic interest in the world, self - confidence, and an abiding moral purpose.

Through a rich curriculum integrating the academic, artistic, and practical, the Waldorf School of Princeton guides children toward self - knowledge, to meet the world by awakening within them warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose.

Through a rich curriculum that integrates the academic, artistic and practical, Prairie Moon Waldorf School fosters the development of self - knowledge and helps children to engage fully in the world by awakening in them warmth of heart, clarity of thought, and strength of purpose.

A blanket wrap serves a practical purpose, by adding warmth during the cooler months, but it also adds interest and sophistication to your LBD.

An inkling of the movement for constitutional reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 1983: 1).

But what practical purpose would have been served by the UK's MEPs all voting in support of the present government's stance?

For practical purposes, both mutations and epimutations ultimately harm us in the same way: by causing abnormal gene expression.

DNA sequencing technology using off - the - shelf equipment devised by George M. Church at Harvard Medical School and collaborators at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis may help realize the federal goal of reducing that price to $ 1,000 by 2015, which experts say would make it practical to decode an individual's genes for routine medical purposes.

Inner Fire was founded three years ago with the sole purpose of saving lives by offering the choice to avoid or taper safely off these addictive drugs by engaging in proactive, artistic therapies and physical, practical work in a supportive community.

Inner Fire was founded in 2013 and started in Brookline in 2015 with the sole purpose of saving lives «by offering the choice to avoid or taper safely off addictive psychotropic medications by engaging in proactive artistic therapies and physical, practical work in a supportive community.»

The Rhys Method ® 12 Chakra Gateways go far beyond other chakra training systems to give you practical step by step ways to clear the blocks that keep you from the energy you need to live your life purpose.

In the Life Purpose Profile Program, each of the five profiles is presented to take you through a practical, step - by - step program to fully claim your true power and purpose iPurpose Profile Program, each of the five profiles is presented to take you through a practical, step - by - step program to fully claim your true power and purpose ipurpose in life.

This immensely wonderful book, full of practical lessons and next steps, as well as of stories by practitioners in the field, kept reminding me of the lessons in that parable, and why I had chosen them as my final words to my students — leadership, like all life, demands mindfulness, not only for the sake of ourselves as individuals, but in order to be true to the purpose of making life better for those we work with and those we lead.

The purpose of these workshops was to provide parents with information that would help them parent their gifted children by understanding the common traits of gifted children and by learning practical strategies for parenting.

The Mercedes S - Class detects such unevenness by means of the stereo camera which sets up the suspension in advance to deal with the situation, in practical purposes, you can drive over a speed hump at 40 km / hr without even noticing it.

For those who find the 54 - inch - long cargo bed too small for practical purposes, Nissan offers an interesting tubular bed extender that mounts on the lowered tailgate, effectively increasing the length by 16.5 inches.

The purpose of this book is to help you get the most out of your tablet by showing you how to do practical, everyday things and customize the screens and apps on your Nexus to suit the way you work or play.

However, the incremental amount of risk reduction decreases exponentially with the number of holdings, so that the reduction in portfolio volatility by addition of another holding quickly approaches zero for all practical purposes.

«Some of my customers come in dressed in sweats, and for all practical purposes, on the wrong day, they may be qualified as «unpredictable» by law enforcement — yet the person is a millionaire,» he says.

Most destructively and unbelievably, the ASPCA written legislation contains a clause that would, for all practical purposes, eliminate the legally mandated holding period for stray animals by allowing shelters to kill any animal who they found to be in «psychological pain».

This was for practical purposes, as you can sort your Steam library by time played in your profile, and I would use that mode to pick out games.

The fixtures and fittings of Ryman's paintings serve both a practical and aesthetic purpose and he exploits shadow and depth, texture and light by varying how close to the wall a painting is hung.

Therefore, for practical purposes, the sole source of excess heat if we increase CO2 is IR emitted by the surface from absorbed solar radiation,.

Anyway that said, I came across this study when I was looking at volcanic activity around the Antarctic Peninsula, billed as a «pristine» site for measuring carbon dioxide, it is surrounded by volcanic production of carbon dioxide which can't be for all practical purposes told apart from «man made fossil fuel production».

The myth that until very recently we used to think that the climate was constant is also propagated by the CRU climate scientists, who write on their history page:» Hubert Lamb's determination and vision can only be appreciated in the context of the view, generally prevailing within the scientific establishment in the 1960s, that the climate for all practical purposes could be treated as constant on timescales that are of relevance to humanity and its social and economic systems.»

Perhaps I could have chosen my words more carefully to avoid the phrase «dogmatically insist» and to avoid implying an equivalence between those who are convinced by the core science (which, for all practical purposes, includes myself) and the likes of Andrew Bolt, but to get one's knickers in a twist over that phrase whilst ignoring my main argument is a serious misreading of my post — or, given Chris Warren's background, a symptomatic reading of ym post.

For practical purposes, SSTsubskin can be well approximated to the measurement of surface temperature by a microwave radiometer operating in the 6 - 11 GHz frequency range, but the relationship is neither direct nor invariant to changing physical conditions or to the specific geometry of the microwave measurements.

Incorporating more balance and diversity into a garden design by leaving part of it wild serves a practical as well as philosophical purpose by increasing the likelihood that the area will naturally to attract birds or other insects that will eat the pests.

The clause «for all practical purposes» was not put in there by accident.

For hurricanes, for example, it's useful to know that for the foreseeable future the incremental change in damages caused by global warming is relatively small compared to the impact of hurricanes in the first place, so that for most practical purposes it's better to be afraid of hurricanes than to be afraid of global warming's effect on hurricanes.

Can we not get along, for practical purposes, by the usual short - cut methods, by graphical curvefitting, or by making fair guesses combining our general experiences with the inference that appears «reasonable» from the particular data at hand?

The rule sought by the State here, however, would make the trial no more than an appeal from the interrogation, and the right to use counsel at the formal trial [would be] a very hollow thing [if], for all practical purposes, the conviction is already assured by pretrial examination.

For the purposes of identifying something as work equipment as defined by the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/2306), (the equipment regulations), one should consider whether it is for use, in the sense that it performs a useful, practical function within and in relation to the purposes of the business.