But most Pentagon, Congressional and outside experts largely agree that for practical and long-term strategic reasons, the merger makes sense.
BUT the portability rules will give many consumers more freedom to shop around while sticking with a string of digits that, for practical or sentimental reasons, have become a part of their lives.
The head of the army, General Sir Peter Wall, said he wished the structural changes could be made more quickly, but that for practical reasons it would take five years to introduce.
And, they could go on (though can Bruins fans sustain an argument?) that if it's going to be called so haphazardly, isn't that for practical purposes the same as not calling it all?
Republicans believe, in short, that they've got Mr. Obama's number, that he may still live in the White House but that for practical purposes his presidency is already over.
The problem with leases is that for practical purposes they are often ways to own something without showing it as an asset and without showing the required payments as a liability.
People close to Mr. Bush said that for practical reasons he needed to move more quickly than Mr. Gore on assembling a new government because the vice president is far more versed in the needs of a new administration and, if anything, could rely on the holdovers from the Clinton administration, some of whom he picked himself.
Rowen says that for practical purposes Priceline only has a $12 billion market in plane tickets.
Brentano admits, however, that for practical reasons it may be convenient to use negative concepts, e.g., for simplifying inferences.
It is shown that for practical calculations a constant average porosity equal to 0.82 can be used.
Nevertheless, other factors determine that for practical use the one-port flux TF is the most adequate of the three.
