Sentence examples for of actual practice from inspiring English sources

Because this study was not an audit of actual practice, we cannot be sure that the self-reported changes actually reflected improved healthcare.

We rarely ask ourselves which ones reflect centuries of actual practice and which are as (relatively) newfangled as airplanes and frozen peas.

What we know of actual practice, however, challenges the idea that these patriarchal norms were ever perfectly enacted or that women entirely accepted the values they presupposed.

"Apparently," the developer of Direct Instruction, Siegfried Engelmann, later bitterly wrote, "decision makers had a greater investment in romantic notions about children than in the gritty details of actual practice or the fact that some things work well".

Insisting that the text means just what he says it means — despite two hundred years of actual practice to the contrary, including that of James Madison, a Framer himself — Scalia asserts, in his usual manner, that his interpretation is merely a statement of fact.

Social and economic theory, and scientific methodology, had become for Neurath matters of theory and of actual practice, of the relation between theory and practice, and, just as important,of a theory of practice (Neurath 1913/1983).

The chasm between Church doctrine and the beliefs and the behavior of actual practicing Catholics has become dangerously wide.

The point of differentiation of this theory concerns its ontological perspective that stresses the primacy of actual practices (and practice architectures) as they are experienced in sites.

Instead of obtaining objective real-time measures, our study was based on physicians' impressions, which could be a distorted representation of actual practices.

The study of mental models is incomplete without corresponding observations and measurements of actual practices, all the more so if researchers aim like Atran and Medin to convince other scientists and to influence policymakers (see, e.g., "Conclusions," p. 269).

In this process the discussion of sustainability may be coaxed from the realms of general discussion and abstraction to a more operational context, and ultimately to the discussion and classification of actual practices and farms.