Sentence examples for practicality by from inspiring English sources

The awkward arithmetic of the December vote meant that a coalition would only be possible if principles were sacrificed to practicality by one or more of the players.

Rodarte, the surprise hit of the season (goodbye to the chola girls and Star Wars characters that blighted previous Rodarte runways), was spectacularly back on track, with gossamer-net frocks for a mermaid who is spending her shore leave on the red carpet, and utility jackets that were rescued from humdrum practicality by the lavish application of silver spangles.

At the age of ten, he constructed a working model of a sewing machine out of bits of wood and wire; while serving in the Austrian Army, he demonstrated a more dangerous practicality by improvising his own mortar in the field.

Form and function handling are rough correlates of originality and practicality, by which we measure design creativity.

We also aim at practicality by employing the scheme to combine the sign definition condition (SDC) and a special QE algorithm using Sturm-Habicht sequence.

We prove the advantage of our newly proposed vector-based scheme over the existing scalar element-based approach for fault isolation and illustrate its practicality by simulated and experimental evaluation on a multivariate pilot scale, computer interfaced system.

In this paper we extend these recent methods to generate compact circuits and we show their practicality by synthesizing a generalized buffer and an arbiter for ARM's AMBA AHB bus from specifications given in PSL.

You make split-second decisions, some driven by practicality, others by the heart.

Until now, routine government surveillance of private conversations was limited as much by practicality as by legal constraints.

"La Vie Matérielle" was translated as "Practicalities" by Barbara Bray, but might be more felicitously titled "Material Life," or "Everyday Life".

This text was drawn from the introduction to "The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities," by Marguerite Duras, which is out November 14th from Everyman's Library.