Sentence examples for is only theoretical from inspiring English sources

Fortunately for us, such an extreme situation is only theoretical, but the results of upsetting nature's own arrangements are well known to students of animal populations.

As with many of the other astronaut options here, it is only theoretical.

There is another result which at this moment is only theoretical, but is still scary for all that.

Although the natural order is well defined, it is only theoretical.

Other doctors say the risk of accelerating new tumor growth is only theoretical, and that surgery increases patient survival.

There are countless examples of Batman employing that which is only theoretical in his fight against crime.

The concerns about its toxicity are only theoretical and have not been scientifically proven.

But Ofcom said those were only theoretical because it was using a rule whereby winners only paid slightly more than the second-highest bidder – similar to an eBay auction – a measure taken to make the auctions harder to rig.

And his ideas, being only theoretical, did not arouse much enthusiasm until 1997 when he showed that an iron- sulphur surface could promote the conversion of carbon monoxide to a two-carbon chemical important in biochemistry of living cells.

Ultimately, in May 1998, the advisory committee endorsed the vaccine unanimously, concluding that the concerns were only theoretical and that data gathered in the clinical trials showed that the vaccine was safe.

The same panel, however, came to a different conclusion about somatic-cell nuclear transfer, also known as therapeutic cloning (this, too, was only theoretical until early this year, when it was done successfully in a study in South Korea).