Sentence examples for practical undertakings from inspiring English sources

In the Oeconomicus, Socrates uses knowledge (epistêmê) and craft (technê) interchangeably to refer to the practical undertakings of a gentleman, called in Greek kalos k'agathos — literally one who is fine and good.

His battle for the abolition of the paragraph in the constitution that excluded Jews from the country was typical of his practical political undertakings.

Yet, as I'll stress till I'm blue in the face (and if you don't believe me, come join me in a dialogue with kids) I've found repeatedly that not only do the insights of our youngest enhance my own practical and scholarly undertakings at every turn, they often are quite wiser than those of the 'elites' who are so condescending to them in practice.

Aim of this project was to describe the complex dependencies in the field of railway safety from a technical point of view in a simplified way for practical usage of infrastructure managers and railway undertakings in their safety management system.

You are also quite in touch with nature and your environment, making practical use of the things around you in your DIY undertakings.

"What is needed is not an indefinite series of such meetings in New York, but an increased emphasis on practical measures that states can take to improve implementation of their undertakings in the program of action, which, unfortunately, has been inadequate in some states," he said.

Such undertakings will no doubt lead the scientific community to define more practical and rigid ethical guidelines for the scientific literature on which we all depend.

Enormous undertakings followed.

But joint undertakings have failed before.

Those are traditionally much riskier undertakings".

New industrial undertakings, however, also appeared.