Sentence examples for practical history from inspiring English sources

What the group does is to match its practices with the "practical" history of Islam, even though many rightly view these practices as contradictory to Islamic teachings.

The comprehensive, practical history of steam railways continues in Devon.

"I think we're in a quiet time right now," said Christopher Bailey, whose Burberry show on Wednesday emphasized the sartorial and practical history of the British brand, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.

Regardless of what kind of pie you're eating, the pastry treat itself has a very long and practical history: when people first began cooking food in ovens there was little to protect the meat (and other ingredients) from the searing heat (there's was no temperature dial on the world's first ovens, believe it or not).

However, ensemble smoothers are much better suited to practical history-matching applications, because they do not require updating dynamical (state) variables and consequently avoid the frequent simulation restarts required by EnKF.

For practical purposes, history doesn't come into this except as a sort of decoration.

"For all practical purposes history is, for us and for the time being, what we know it to be".

There have been examples of relocations for practical reasons in history too.

"The real question is whether humans make worse mistakes when they write algorithms or when they trade," says Terrence Hendershott of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.In practical terms, trading history is highly unlikely to be reversed.

Decadence also comes at a practical cost, and history is raw and recent.

Before about 1800, due to the lack of airtight pads (see History), practical woodwinds could have only a few keys to control accidentals (notes outside their diatonic home scales).