Addressing 21st-century security challenges requires a rational and practical approach, not one based on misplaced notions that having Trident makes us a great power and enables us "to punch above our weight".
It is believed that a rational and practical concession pricing model can create a 'win win' situation for both the private investor and the host government.
Promisingly, the successful application of multiplex amplification strategy affords a rational and practical consideration for the fabrication of new and high-performance photoelectrochemical sensing devices.
This works aims at demonstrating that a rational, and practical, understanding of the fire performance of structural systems during real fires is unlikely to be achieved only by performing additional standard fire resistance tests.
Adopting human gene symbols for orthologous genes in other mammals is both a rational and a practical way to create a coherent and meaningful gene nomenclature.
The term 'herpes simplex' appeared in Richard Boulton's A System of Rational and Practical Chirurgery in 1713, where the terms 'herpes miliaris' and 'herpes exedens' also appeared.
Mr. Waid told The Times that the tower would eschew all "extraneous ornament or embellishment which has not a rational meaning and practical use" and that it would be "unhampered by archaeological precedent".
Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city... a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all".
Crisply written, rational and practical, "Zero to One" should be read not just by aspiring entrepreneurs but by anyone seeking a thoughtful alternative to the current pervasive gloom about the prospects for the world.
If we are to succeed in tackling them, we need all the rational and practical help we can get, but we also need to good dose of wisdom and humility.
Education, which Locke felt should address both character and intellect, is therefore best achieved by providing the pupil with examples of proper thought and behaviour, by training the child to witness and share in the habits of virtue that are part of the conventional wisdom of the rational and practical man.
