In a country where tax evasion, smuggling and bribery of customs officials practically amount to a national pastime, increasing Afghanistan's revenue base has been a major policy goal for the international community.
The Japanese demands in Shanghai will, if complied with, practically amount to acknowledgment of the principle that the Japanese have the right to take over all sovereign power within the foreign settlements to an extent greater than was granted to the Chinese government.
For some, it practically amounts to a philosophy.
(Some puppets wrapped over the performers' backs and heads, practically amounting to costumes).
To an ichthyologist like Dr. Stiassny, the dedication of energy and money to the sleepy Hall of Ocean Life practically amounts to righting a wrong.
The new film shines like the Chrysler Building at sunset, and practically amounts to an "I Love New York" ad, except everyone is dressed even weirder and lots of things are breaking.
She said Sally Rand couldn't get away with hiding behind a bubble or a couple of fans in burlesque, and the grease she wears all over herself practically amounts to a heavy suit of armor.
Carl MacDonald, AKA WestRyder From their early days touring the nation's forests with Pulp, to staging a festival at England's highest pub and performing on the Isles Of Scilly, the band have dedicated their touring lives to compiling what practically amounts to a rock and roll Ordnance Survey.
The central bank, however, said on August 20th it will guarantee all individual deposits.The banks have already been allowed to dip into the reserve deposits they are required to keep at the central bank, which practically amounts to printing money to bail them out.
According to Plutarch, the aporetic element in Plato encourages a way of searching for the truth without prejudices or a priori commitments, and this practically amounts to a dialectical inquiry, arguing either side of a given question; but this dialectical spirit does not deny the possibility of reaching firm conclusions, or even the possibility of achieving secure knowledge.
If Σ and μ do not represent the true model but the alternative model (Σ0 and μ0), and given regularity conditions are satisfied (practically amounting to multivariate normality, limited misfit and large sample size N), the test statistic T follows a non-central χ distribution with df0 degrees of freedom and non-centrality parameter λ, i.e., T ∼ χ(df0, λ), where λ > 0.
