Sentences with phrase «practical purposes existing»

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

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

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.

@Anotheralt: If god can not be proven, then the only logical conclusion to draw is that, for all practical purposes, he / she / it doesn't exist.

For all practical purposes, ground - based VLF astronomy does not exist.

I did hang onto a few things I just could not convince myself to get rid of, either for practical («I only wear this black t - shirt for dance graduation, but I * always * wear this black t - shirt at dance graduation every eight weeks») or sentimental («This came from a boutique I LOVED that no longer exists, and I'm really attached to it even though it's ratty and I won't wear it») purposes.

Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus's landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness.

The Sony Reader — Well, for all practical purposes, it doesn't exist.