Aristotle criticizes his predecessors for excessive utopianism and neglect of the practical duties of a political theorist.
Garrow showed potential, being noted as "attentive and diligent in the performance of the technical and practical duties of the office", and Southouse recommended that he become a solicitor or barrister; as a result, when he was 17, he became a pupil of a Mr. Crompton, a special pleader.
Nursing ethics might also be considered as competency in nurses without any direct impact on their clinical activities, which could be separated from practical duties of nursing.
The practical duty of installation was done by his wife Sue, and later by Pia Simig, while the craftsmanship was entrusted to an ever-changing team of collaborators, some of whom Finlay never met.
Fundamentally important as is this clock in all that concerns its relation to exact astronomical science, it performs also another and more immediately practical duty, that of regulating the time of great part of the United Kingdom.
Their practical duties and aims as instruments of governance may not always match their constitutional blueprints or historical roles.
Nominated by a 10-member council of regional Ashanti elders, and voted on by community members, the regional chief has a range of ceremonial and practical duties.
It was, from the start, impossible to imagine Trump carrying out the duties of state, practical or ceremonial, with any sense of deliberation or dignity.
The council also promulgated decrees (documents on practical questions) on the pastoral duties of bishops, ecumenism, the Eastern-rite churches, the ministry and life of priests, the education for the priesthood, the religious life, the missionary activity of the church, the apostolate of the laity, and the media of social communication.
GPs preferred to assist with emotional needs by offering practical ways of helping with the duties of the caregiver.
Consider, for instance, John Lawrence's "Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses, and on the Moral Duties of Man Towards the Brute Creation," published in London in 1796.
