Sentence examples for terribly in practice from inspiring English sources
Holding elections to fill important state judgeships is one of those ideas that may sound good in theory but works terribly in practice.
Her two-gate hypothesis, later endorsed by Virgil and Ovid, was elegant in theory but not terribly useful in practice.
Still, Jack L. Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor who led the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2003-04, argued that an approach of issuing fewer signing statements would "not be terribly consequential" in practice because the executive branch could still override a provision that its legal team later pronounces unconstitutional.
It sounds terribly modern, but in practice it would surely increase leakage of actual value.
"Even if it could be done I'm not sure it would be a terribly good idea in practice," he said.
A remarkable (but in practice not terribly useful) theorem of Saharon Shelah tells us that a pair of structures A and B are elementarily equivalent if and only if they have ultrapowers that are isomorphic to each other.
I don't foresee that the authorities are terribly interested in giving him a sentence reduction … In practice, I would be very surprised were this case to be reopened.
Iceland suffered terribly in the recession, after the boom years of unsustainable growth based on questionable banking practices.
The State Department executed terribly in Benghazi.
No matter: few would consider the seat terribly in danger.
