Sentence examples for practical propositions from inspiring English sources

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.

For he defines law as universal (in the logician's sense of "universal") practical propositions conceived in the reason of the ruler(s) and communicated to the reason of the ruled so that the latter will treat those propositions, at least presumptively, as reasons for action reasons as decisive for each of them as if each had conceived and adopted them by personal judgment and choice.

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.

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.

A revolution starts with an idea, but to become real, it has to move quickly to a practical proposition about getting stuff done.