Sentence examples for point of the practice from inspiring English sources

"But that's really missing the point of the practice.

He recommends this attitude: "The real point of the practice test is to find if I'm improving on the stuff I'm working on and what do I need to work on".

Such self-perpetuating promotion is the whole point of the practice, and a marketer's dream.

If the former prevail, then the theory is likely to be consequentialist and probably some version of utilitarianism, according to which the point of the practice of punishment is to increase overall net social welfare by reducing (ideally, preventing) crime.

Once the interpretive attitude has taken hold amongst the participants in a social practice, the only way to understand it adequately is to do as the participants in that practice do: i.e. join the practice and make the same kind of interpretive claims concerning the point of the practice, and what the rules of it are in light of that point, as they do.

That's the point of the practice.

Fortunately, particularly for those who depend on such things, Rosen is working to keep the tradition alive, creating glass equipment for his research and even teaching others the finer points of the practice.

Many point to the practice of "wigging" – which is when male stunt actors play female characters.

Republican supporters of the bill pointed to the practice of female infanticide in places like India and China as justification for the bill.

(3) When the contact level is used as the point of reference, the practice staff was able to enrol 80% of the individuals they approached about the study, which we believe to be an efficient use of local general practice staffs' limited capacities for taking part in research projects.

The point of the exercise is to practice the skill, not to approximate the feeling.