Sentence examples for never in practice from inspiring English sources

Honours have never, in practice, been about contribution.

But there remains a concern that the pattern will continue, in which women's rights appear to have been granted in principle but never in practice.

Even as a beardless boy I knew that the thesis was half-baked, and noted that it was honoured only in theory and never in practice by its proponents.

After writing in a book about the remote theoretical possibility of warp drive -- something that might be possible in principle, but most likely never in practice -- I saw some of my hype used on the one hand in ill-advised proposals by NASA engineers to try to design warp drives now, and on the other by people who argue that aliens must be using warp drives to come here to abduct Earthlings.

Almost always, what matters is the relation to experience of some larger chunk of theory (and, in principle, although perhaps never in practice, of the theory as a whole).

But the upshot is sometimes embarrassment about any status or power, an impulse to disown it symbolically (almost never in practice) in lieu of trying to find ways to extend it.

Since the laboratory glass transition is never a discontinuous process (i.e., an infinitely fast quench is never achievable in practice), the continuous formulation is more descriptive of realistic laboratory conditions.

Or we've never been in practice.

Only one problem: the play had never worked in practice.

The technical information is provided for standard test conditions that may never occur in practice.

Such a vast migration could never happen in practice, of course, but as a thought exercise it is instructive.