Sentences with phrase «practical purpose in»

By contrast, a business would not have machinery etc simply so that it could be programmed, transported, repaired or cleaned: if that were all that it was there for, the machinery would serve no useful, practical purpose in the undertaking.

The subject draws on the principles of design, mathematics and science and applies them to a practical purpose in the real world.

What does the product offer the user beyond its immediate practical purpose in terms of sensual quality, possibilities of a playful use or emotional attachment?

There was thus a practical purpose in pursuing theology.

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

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

Tall puppies trained till adulthood are being completely trained and thus serve practical purposes in rural areas away from cities.

De Kooning was able to harness the power and malleability of oil paint to depict the «corporeal rawness» of the nudes in his «Woman» series as Marcia Brennan describes in Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004), 72 [2] Otero discovered reusing pieces of dried paint for practical purposes in graduate school.

The original statement is (for all practical purposes in climate modelling that I can imagine) correct.

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.

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.

His lengthy complete post offers some interesting questions to help you narrow in on your purpose, as well as advice on how to move from this realization to practical marketing tactics.

«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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

In the world of the practical, God is loved for the sake of one's self, for the self's purposes, and for the yield of this relation in the reward of eternal lifIn the world of the practical, God is loved for the sake of one's self, for the self's purposes, and for the yield of this relation in the reward of eternal lifin the reward of eternal life.

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»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»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».

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.

Who is this man Jesus, and have we for all practical purposes lost sight of him in the midst of floods, slaughter, burning pits of hell, and so much more?

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.

That God's purpose in creation should be the manifestation of his glory is also an attribute which has definite relations to our practical life.

They believe that capital expressed in technology can lead to virtually unlimited substitutions, so that they argue that for practical purposes raw materials are unlimited.

As such, its main purpose is practical — to serve as a resource for helping couples to learn skills of relating in depth.

For practical purposes the policies adopted in most countries assume this view of human beings and of the natural world.

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

That would in itself be a definition hard to quarrel with, were it not for the fact that in recent years it has come to be widely held that the final purpose of «doing» social ethics is to draw up a blueprint for a just society and perhaps also a practical guide for getting there.

Browning's purpose is to show how these general understanding might figure in strategic practical theology as well.

Over against this Hartshorne expressed his own belief that, «literal participation in each other's being is about my strongest belief,» though he did grant «that other human selves are, for practical purposes known indirectly.»

Beginning primarily with the missionary activities of the Portuguese in India in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, Christian converts became for all practical purposes outcastes, cut off from caste and community.

Because our abilities in prediction are not perfected, we may for practical purposes have to put up with probabilities somewhere between, as we do when we predict what electrons will do.

What if loving the people were central, the proposition of the community was that every person deserves to be loved, the purpose of the community was to love all, and the product of the community was loving real people in practical ways that would translate into the mutual respect and dignity of each person along with the equality of the rights and freedoms of all people?

In our society, there is a pretty broad consensus that a person who no longer has a functioning brain is dead for all practical purposes.

There was a small minority of those who, in their enthusiasm for everything the West stood for, became «denationalized» for all practical purposes.

The purpose of courses in theology and ethics, then, would not be to explore ethical «positions» or «systems» of theological thought as such but rather to «help students to become practical Christian thinkers» (106).