Sentence examples for abstract theory from inspiring English sources

There is no abstract theory that can predict how people will react to an austerity programme.

He invaded Iraq on the basis of abstract theory, the very thing Burke warned against.

Hence, abstract theory, intuition and metaphors loom especially large in our thinking.

Capitalist ideology has ceased to be abstract theory and is made tangible in every object of desire set before us.

The gap is not unlike that between the abstract theory of computers and the basic properties of actual computers.

In his autobiography, he wrote of "these gifted young people being sacrificed on the altar of an abstract theory of social justice".

In short, Shakespeare allows his characters autonomy and defines them through action rather than judging them according to some abstract theory.

Every year the world's business becomes less and less the comprehensible exchange of tangible money for tangible commodity, the matter of abstract theory and intricate bookkeeping.

But, with the creation of an abstract theory of fields, it was natural to want a theory of varieties defined by equations with coefficients in an arbitrary field.

There is a good deal to be said in her favour, not least that she regarded "compassionate conservatism" as more than just an abstract theory.

Anatomy and physiology are elegantly explained, not as abstract theory, but as counterpoint to gripping stories about survival against the odds: in frozen rivers, flaming cockpits, bombs, viral pandemics, deep water or outer space.