Sentence examples for by a theoretical exercise from inspiring English sources

Naumkin's argument was partly motivated by a theoretical exercise that sought to reject the applicability of the dominant view that agriculture preceded pastoralism.

This study attempted to replicate real-life situations by means of a theoretical exercise.

However, a mere data mining with bioinformatic methods is often considered as a theoretical exercise by experimental geneticists.

The book is compelling as a theoretical exercise, but its usefulness is restricted by Feldman's failure to confront practical considerations such as the rights of women.

It is almost entirely a theoretical exercise.

"This isn't a theoretical exercise," she said.

This was in 1998, and it was a theoretical exercise.

"It was more a theoretical exercise than a practical one," said Wendt.

Far from a theoretical exercise, however, Jeanne Dielman has the gripping tension of a thriller.

Until recently, the intersection of democracy, Islam and American foreign policy was more a theoretical exercise.

That the map was first circulated as a theoretical exercise in some American neoconservative circles matters little here.