Sentences with phrase «practical purposes of»

«In the case of sea level, society might want to know what is science's best guess for the future rise, but for any practical purposes of coastal protection it is the worst case that is relevant.

So the practical purposes of the practice remain relevant even in modern times.

For most practical purposes of an individual, modelling would be way off in terms of reward - benefits.

For practical purposes of religious faith the result was not unlike the later concept of the immanence of God.

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

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

But he also made two student assistants famous for the practical purpose of engaging his defense on the field but also keeping everyone around him included, even the student volunteers.

The manipulation of illusion is arguably the auteur mark of Nolan, who played with the idea of the manipulation of fear as a weapon in Batman Begins, the practical purpose of dream sleep in his remake of Insomnia, and of course of identity as fluid, ephemeral, and dangerously malleable in Memento and Following.

No doubt the high trunk serves the practical purpose of giving greater vertical space to a short stowage area, but practicality's gain is aesthetic's loss.

The practical purpose of the reef was to preclude coastal erosion, and to provide safe bathing for the hotel guests.

It's a rare case where the practical purpose of the censoring overshadows the principles for me

The practical purpose of the Index is to evaluate and compare the potential of Russia's most dynamic cities in terms of their prospects for economic modernisation and their investment appeal.

Adding living greenery to our urban buildings in the form of vertical gardens not only helps to make cities more beautiful, but also serves the practical purpose of producing extra oxygen and cleaning the air.

Garden sheds offer such a great opportunity to experiment in architecture, to do something completely different, to have a little fun as well as serving the practical purpose of getting a little more space.

In the interest of staying true to both the practical purpose of my advice and the unique nature of our admissions process - which I believe is fair and respectful to applicants and all those who speak on their behalf - I have chosen, after much deliberation, simply to remove the post from the blog.

(For land, this serves an important practical purpose of enabling a person, other than a party, to check that an agent signing a sealed document was authorized.

Seeing them made me curious about why people started using Xs on barn doors to begin with, so I did a little Googling, and found out that the» X» design of white boards across barn doors is there for the very practical purpose of making the barn door stronger.

The» X» design of white boards across barn doors is there for the very practical purpose of making the barn door stronger.

Not exact matches

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

This book cites dozens of companies that have successfully integrated a higher purpose into their business DNA: practical case studies you can learn from and emulate!

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.

Modi has championed the initiative as a practical and streamlined method to attract companies to India for the purpose of making their products, rather than merely marketing them there.

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.

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

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.

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

Wesley plumbed the whole of the Christian tradition and the Scriptures but bent this work to practical rather than speculative purposes - to issues of the shape of Christian life and existence.

Part of our purpose was to give one another permission to ask very nosy and practical questions about what «worked.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

But however this goes, it is clear that even a religiously informed practical reason must have some theory, knowledge or intuition about these needs if it is to serve the purposes of a practical theology

There's a big difference between carrying a gun, which serves the sole purpose of killing, and a dagger, which has many practical uses.

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.

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.

But much of it is also important for many practical purposes.

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.

Yet Frank Viola offers many practical and helpful suggestions for how follower of Jesus from all sides of the political and theological spectrum can come together with a common purpose and a common goal.

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.

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.

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 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.»