Sentence examples for mostly theoretical from inspiring English sources

They have a staff of 180, mostly theoretical physicists.

Despite the manifesto's mostly theoretical nature, it contains a color photograph near the end that bespeaks at least a first step on the road to practical experience.

In Mr. Honoré's world desire is fluid as well as powerful, and sexual identity is, like monogamy, a mostly theoretical matter.

There it is mostly theoretical, though he has a model made of two rotating aluminum plates with glacial sediments between them, which he describes as "rotating a bagel and seeing the cream cheese shear".

But women's advocates say that even so, protections for women remain mostly theoretical in much of the country, particularly in rural areas, where tradition runs deepest and women have limited access to advocacy services and courts.

It's been good for those with the education, talent, and luck to benefit from it; for others — in urban cores like Youngstown, Ohio; rural backwaters like Rockingham County, North Carolina; and the exurban slums outside Tampa — inclusiveness remains mostly theoretical.

When quantum computing was first proposed, in the nineteen-eighties, it was mostly a theoretical curiosity.

But this is still mostly a theoretical change embraced by those outside academia that has yet to sweep universities.

He devoted his remaining years mostly to theoretical and scientific writings and illustrations, although several well-known character portraits and some important portrait engravings and woodcuts also date from this period.

Our ideas about the structure of this region come mostly from theoretical models.

Lewis: Is this still mostly a theoretical threat, or are these industries already suffering financially from the trends your book describes?