Sentences with phrase «theory than practice»

Self - regulation is a better idea in theory than practice.

The case of charter schools renewals, past and present, shows that the concept of «accountability» for «flexibility» is more theory than practice.

That's one of those things that's far easier in theory than practice... View Post

It's far easier to save a steady percentage of your income from a young age to allow compound interest to do the heavy lifting for you but for many this idea is much easier in theory than practice.

Some gadgets work better in theory than practice.

Not exact matches

The key to the Body by Science approach is to perform reps reaaallly slowly, keeping muscles under load for an extended period of time, and to keeping working until failure — which is even tougher in practice than it sounds in theory.

Because, as the recent uproar in Europe shows, supporting austerity in theory is quite a different matter than staying behind it in practice.

And as usual, advisory firms like Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) are joining with the public pension funds to demand governance reforms that perform better in theory than in practice.

I'm not necessarily claiming that Christianity is wonderful (I'm an atheist), but that Christianity as it is known and experienced today is much, much more mellow an ideology both in theory and practice than Islam.

More explicitly than anyone else in the early pastoral tradition, Gregory the Great developed the theory and practice of contextual pastoral counseling.

I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we live], actually explain why our Fathers built better than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.

Uniting so many of these new voices, it, seems, is not a theory of hermeneutics, much less a revised correlational method for theology, but a new hermeneutical practice that actualizes that theory and that method better than many of the theorists do.

Community and Scriptures have been brought much more closely together in practice and in theory than was the case in the older view of the minister as preacher.

In actual practice, the psychoanalyst does attribute to the «I» of his patient a greater transcendence over these psychic forces than his theories justify, just as the academic psychologist, consciously or unconsciously, attributes to his subjects an inwardness that his science ignores.

Illustrates clearly what Christopher Hitchens was saying in his book «The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice», specifically how her hospitals were more keen on proselytizing to the dying than actually helping them with their pain.

This book presented a non-violent reading of Scripture in light of Girard's mimetic theory, but more than anything, this book was a defense of how the Catholic Mass could still be practiced and not be viewed as a perpetual sacrifice.

It seems impossible also to organize a genuine course of study including the Biblical disciplines, church history, theology, the theory and practice of worship, preaching, and education on other grounds than those of habit and expediency unless there is clarity about the place of these studies and acts in the life of the Church.

Conversely, they condemn any theory or practice that «results in the... Church standing in judgment over Scripture, rather than vice versa.»

Late modernism has followed the implications of the sensationalist theory rather than the implications of Kant's theory of practice.

The more serious problem, however, is in the theory rather than the practice of the politics of victimhood.

this moron has no idea what the real is issue is But he will assume know more about theology than the church and therefore they should ignore two thousand years of practice and theory.

Contemporary pastoral care theory and practice, by contrast, seem to bear the message of hope, liberation and the coming Kingdom of God only as alternatives to hopeless suffering rather than as a horizon of meaning within hopeless suffering.

Nor need outsiders simply follow Muslims: It is possible both in theory and in practice for an outside scholar to break new ground in stating the meaning of a faith in, say, modern terms more successfully than a believer.

Such a criticism will go farther than the German theologians toward development of particular Christian proposals for political theory and practice.

Rather than capacitating us to be skilled at moving from theory to application in practice, or from theory to assessment of action after practice is over, the schooling seems to be aimed at capacitating us for principled reflection upon our Christian praxis while we are engaged in it.

And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).

This profound change from our previous order of government is often hidden by political and judicial rhetoric that gives honor to and even cites the written Constitution; yet, in contemporary theory and in practice, the document is really an authoritative occasion for, rather than a norm of, judicial interpretation.

Directly opposed to this view is the pragmatic theory which regards theoretical activity as an affair of rationalizations, essentially irrelevant to practice; practice is valued both for its own sake and as more directly contributory than thought can be to the welfare of men and the glory of God.

But unfortunately, theory is so much easier than practice when it comes to this kind of relationship.

So he's more of a back - up big man in theory than in practice.

If you were more educated about sleep methods and evidence based practices based on attachment theory and child development you would understand that «sleep training» is much more than having a kid learn to not vocalize their needs so parents can sleep at all costs.

To test his theory, Newberg has scanned the brains of more than 20 adherents of spiritual practices, including Christian prayer and Tibetan Buddhist meditation.

Most of the possible approaches may or may not work well, because of the replication advantage that damaged mitochondria have over normal mitochondria, and are still to be tested in practice rather than theory or demonstration: upregulation of existing repair mechanisms; delivery of extra functional mitochondrial DNA or whole mitochondria; and so forth.

Calorie counting is simple in theory but when put in practice, it's a little harder than it looks.

Not meaning that the «theory» or parts other than the physical practice were not as important, but that those parts would instead come naturally when we did the practice.

Often these ideas for outfits I get work better in theory than they do in practice, but I was surprisingly happy with this outfit.

It is easier in theory than in practice.

This in - flight tell is a harbinger of Cristina's epiphany that her free - spirit ethos better remain a theory, rather than be put into practice.

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

Crazy, Stupid, Love Directed by: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa Starring: Steve Carell, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling Rating: PG - 13 Release Date: July 29, 2011 TRAILER SCORE: 4/10 Thoughts by TSR: Unfortunately, this is the kind of movie trailer that works better in theory than in practice.

Intolerable Cruelty, for all its embedded scholarship and flashes of screwball humor, enlightens and charms more in theory than in practice.

Trying to catch a snapshot of psychos or zombies was always better in theory than in practice, so I was pleased to see it replaced with weapon - building as the new hook.

The films of Nicholas Ray, more than any other contemporary American director's, were singled out by the up - and - coming Cahiers du Cinéma crowd (on the cusp of their own splashy Nouvelle Vague) as justification for their politique des auteurs — more a personal stance on critical practice than dogmatic superstructure, and long since codified and ossified by academic film criticism into hierarchy - happy «auteur theory.»

Unfortunately, the results are far more interesting in theory than in practice.

The endeavor works better in theory than in practice.

I mention it only to make the point that when I became deeply involved in implementing standards - based accountability in Virginia, I had no preordained agenda to fulfill other than to make Virginia's reform agenda, the Standards of Learning (better known as the S - O - Ls), work not only in theory but also in practice.

Surely we now know far more than the psychologists of Bagley's day, yet rival schools of thought continue to disagree about theory, policy, and practice.

Ravitch is aware that the rhetoric of latter - day progressives changed more than did actual practice in the schools, where many teachers paid little attention to their theories.

Yet while school boards» capacity to innovate may be greater in practice than it is in theory, they enjoy less autonomy than other local governments.

Early education, by contrast, remains mired in philosophy, in broad theories of the nature of child development, and in practices that spring from appeals to authority and official pronouncements of professional guilds, rather than to research.