Sentence examples for practical proposition from inspiring English sources

Unlike most of them, it is a thoroughly practical proposition.

Record low interest rates mean that public investment is a practical proposition.

This makes it a much more practical proposition to have in a nursing home or hospital than a live pet.

The inquirers were politely told — given China's position as more rival than friend — that it was not a practical proposition.

The significant speed up achieved (factor of 25) has multiple benefits: It makes the MRF approach a practical proposition.

Nevertheless, neither Rabi nor the military, then largely in control of oscillator research money in university radiation laboratories, believed that Townes's maser was a practical proposition.

His rhetoric soars but practical propositions in Half-Earth are as thin on the ground as spray toads in the Kihansi rainforest.

The next few months will see the general sentiment that welfare spending is out of control translated into – and tested against – specific practical propositions.

Obviously, many theoretical propositions have bearing on practical propositions: what will happen if the minimum wage is lowered has consequences for the best way to decrease unemployment.

For example, the overall rational purpose of a non-theoretical judgment might be to make instrumental or non-instrumental free choices or decisions (pragmatic or moral judgments, i.e., "practical propositions") (20: 196).

If one thinks perceptively and carefully about what to pursue (or shun) and do (or forbear from), one can readily understand and assent to practical propositions such as that life and health, knowledge, and harmony with other people are desirable for oneself and anyone else.