Sentence examples for serious and practical from inspiring English sources

The meetings were "serious and practical," said Chun Hae-sung, a spokesman for the South's Unification Ministry.

"The Palestinian side is conducting negotiations insincerely and is not willing to negotiate in a serious and practical manner for a permanent peace between us," an Israeli reporter cited as a direct quotation from the letter.

Mary is the bluestocking: serious and practical.

Methylmercury (MeHg) poses serious and practical concerns for human populations regarding perinatal exposure.

"Reluctantly, the council has decided to pause its involvement in the national scheme, until the government can resolve the serious funding and practical issues involved".

This time, though, the atmosphere was serious, earnest and practical — except at the beginning, when the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, welcomed the students.

Our enemy shouldn't deter us; but when we are "challenged by ourselves" — not by our weaknesses, or by some craven fear, but by serious moral and practical questions being raised in ordinary American homes — we should at least pause in our mission, and listen, and maybe change our course.

Provision of methadone or other OST in pharmacies faces serious legal and practical barriers.

This being said, there are serious computational and practical reasons that including more data is not always better.

The evaluation design randomises centres and therefore does not require the blind randomisation of individual patients into intervention or control group which would create serious ethical and practical problems.

For healthcare providers the serious ethical and practical challenge is thus not whether patients' rights matter in China, but how these rights should be respected and what ought to be done when these rights appear to be in conflict with other ethical concerns, such as the public good, the rights of others, and cultural practice.