Sentence examples for a certain practical from inspiring English sources

Both Ms. Small and Mr. Seaman, who remain stubbornly optimistic about college in America, suggest that there is a certain practical value in all this; it's preparation for life.

He had a certain practical wisdom that enabled him to survive, but Tengo could discern no hint of a willingness in his father to deepen himself, to view a wider, larger world.

There is also a certain practical reality to the Climb Wyoming sisterhood, the plain and simple sense that the new group is absorbing a lot of arcane, technical information that many other people cannot comprehend, like how to solder a brass pipe so it is straight and true and will not corrode from within.

Inquiries of Hecataeus's kind had a certain practical application: knowledge of the world, in the most literal sense of that phrase, was of obvious usefulness in a city like Miletus with its colonial connections (in the Black Sea region) and its long-distance trade.

This work may realize the wide application of TiO2, and has a certain practical significance.

Particularly after a brutal winter like this one, an SUV that can bulldoze its way through snowdrifts has a certain practical appeal.

Nonetheless, as CATs began to be used in practice, certain practical shortcomings became evident, and a modern variety of MST arose to address these issues (Mead 2006).

We define a new generated family in order to provide a "better fit" in certain practical situations.

While they emphasized that they are and have always been supportive of each other, over the last five-and-a-half years they have adopted certain practical measures.

The changes introduced to certain practical classes are a direct response to students and staff difficulties with the understanding the role of preclinical laboratory classes in an integrated curriculum and how these classes should address student's learning needs in an engaging manner.

However, such a study would have had to entertain certain practical obstacles, including ethical clearance, and may not be forthcoming for many years to come.