Sentence examples for practical minds from inspiring English sources

The party still has some practical minds and Christie may end up their man.

Here, too, he has appointed bright, practical minds: notably Takumi Nemoto, another ally, who is responsible for economic policy.

Mr Bush is probably not the man to do it, but more practical minds in Washington should think hard.

Finally, what is now called academic economics will be treated with the same disrespect that rigorous (and practical) minds currently have for Derrida-style post-modernist verbiage.Nassim Taleb: professor of risk engineering at New York University; author of "The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms" (Random House and Penguin, January 2011).

While there were avid segregationists who declared the federal desegregation laws would not be fulfilled, more practical minds could see the futility and extreme expense of having to create duplicate facilities in every area of advanced education, and the process of integration, which had already begun at a slow pace, now became accelerated.

Those who showed up for the auction were practical minded.

"The veneration of an abstract idea," he explains, "is somewhat alien to China's practical mind-set".

His love for his family, great sense of humor and practical mind helped everyone around him through good times and bad.

As his songs repeat, they reveal something behind the anodyne aspects of the music — a patient, practical mind that does not deceive itself about the difficulties of love.

More than a philosopher, Aristotle's calculating and practical mind ranged widely, from cosmology, zoology and politics to the analysis of the ennobling quality of music.

As his songs repeat, they reveal something behind the anodyne aspects of the music a patient, practical mind that does not deceive itself about the difficulties of love.