Their subject, intellectually important though it undoubtedly is, has little practical application.
Scholarly research from business schools is often lambasted for having little practical application.
Economists have tried to devise abstract voting schemes that would reconcile these difficulties, but these appear to have little practical application.
Although these tests have proven useful for scientific investigations, they are difficult to use in field studies and would have little practical application in occupational and personal safety scenarios.
However, studying Mongolian has little practical application, and those teachers have gradually changed professions.
This definition of potential, while formal, has little practical application, and a more useful concept is that of electric potential difference, and is the energy required to move a unit charge between two specified points.
However, although it has been demonstrated that large air traffic control and weather radars appear to exert an aversive response on foraging bats [21], this has little practical application in preventing bats from colliding with turbine blades.
Unfortunately, apart from two mutant genes long known to be associated with a high risk of breast cancer, the search has shown that changes in a large number of genes influence overall risk and so this knowledge may have little practical application.
Back then, China was only just starting to emerge from its isolation in the international community, and my own interest in studying Chinese raised many eyebrows -- as if I were pursuing a subject which was way out on the fringe, and had little practical career applications.
However, the law had little practical effect in preventing migration.
However, analysts say the deals have had little practical effect.
