Sentence examples for practical gain from inspiring English sources

But even now, the Higgs boson represents no practical gain: it has not and cannot be seen, only inferred, and its inference merely confirms that so far the universe seems as some physicists thought.

When it comes to Iraq, we've yet to see the evidence of a large practical gain in return; instead, use of contractors may have helped to make an ill-advised venture possible.

The tired red herring that earnings are proportional to financial or practical gain for the beneficiaries of the skill deployed, and payment a recognition by "hard-nosed employers" of that skill, is nonsense.

For Ms. Hill, that was a final victory, even if one that offers her no practical gain: she wasn't even born in Oregon, and besides, she has already found her birth parents.

In other words, people were valuing their own reputations in the eyes of the other players as much as the practical gain from the game, and felt that in comparison with the selfless individual they were being found wanting.

A practical gain from using the GWEBLUP is in small area estimation for out of sample areas.

Some of the biggest opportunities for Big Data to make practical gains quickly are focused on the most expensive parts of current clinical practice: Reliable, predictive alerting and retrospective reporting analytics for high-cost patients, readmissions, triage, clinical decompensation, adverse events, and treatment optimization for diseases affecting multiple organ systems [ 7].

Women's confidence, despite all the practical gains made over the years, is taking a beating like never before.

Although the Wages for Housework campaign served as a consciousness-raising tool, it gradually lost momentum without accomplishing the practical gains it sought.

The trouble is that sooner or later one has to turn these rhetorical advances into practical gains – and to do that, a party must be prepared to do a deal.

But in many cases there is an added layer of skepticism from other Chinese intellectuals who might think you've sought confrontation instead of practical gains, that you've played into foreign expectations of a dissident.