Sentence examples for practical aims from inspiring English sources
The contemporary philosopher of social science, Rom Harre follows the theoretical sociologists in offering this kind of definition (Harre 1979: 98): "An institution was defined as an interlocking double-structure of persons-as-role-holders or office-bearers and the like, and of social practices involving both expressive and practical aims and outcomes".
Technology, the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment.
Its influential work has practical aims, from working with employers to helping mentally ill people get and stay in work, and improving the range and quality of prison health services.
The inspiration of the "common cause" of European Protestantism did not lead him to subordinate insular national interests; he reduced the ideological ends of international Protestantism to the more practical aims of secular patriotism.
Despite his concessions to the pope, Otto had no intention of dropping imperial claims in Italy; the practical aims that had driven the Hohenstaufen shaped his policy as well.
But NASA also has more practical aims.
Dr Indiveri is working independently of the HBP and with a different, more practical aim in mind.
But Andrei Ivanov, an analyst with Troika Dialog, an investment firm, says that the closures are more than just public relations; they have a practical aim as well.
Currently, personhood is often treated symbolically rather than factually – as an honorific, a promise to pretend that an entity (an ape, a foetus, a corporation) is a person in order to achieve some philosophical or practical aim.
He pitches himself as the man who can combine the socialist principles that Corbyn's supporters see incarnate in the incumbent leader and meld them with a practical aim to win general elections.
"Reader comments are a mix of insight and inanity that few of us have the time or energy to digest," says Gaizauskas. "SENSEI has the very practical aim of helping readers to make sense of this mass of comment.
