Sentence examples for to act practically from inspiring English sources

"In tumultuous economic times, he has the intellectual bandwidth to be able to grasp the radically changing financial situation and to act practically upon it".

Haff argues that in our thousands of years of harnessing technology – including the first technologies like stone tools, wheels and crops – the technology itself has basically begun to act practically independently, creating a new sphere (i.e., like the biosphere or atmosphere or lithosphere), but like nothing the planet has ever seen before.

The ability to modify the risk of manifestation does, however, appear to be a key criterion perhaps with individuals coping more easily with adverse information if they can act practically upon it.

This is why Smith calls not for regulation of trade following his prescriptions but for the system of "natural liberty" allowing every one to act, as far as is practically possible, as he wishes.

Passions are the engine for all our deeds: without passions we would lack all motivation, all impulse or drive to act, or even to reason (practically or theoretically).

The way she tells it, she was plucked from a happy fringe career by the city's larger institutions; the way others tell it, her potential practically forced them to act.

The most obvious is that limitations on our time and resources make it practically impossible for us to act equally on others' behalf as well as our own.

But there's not much, practically, that the administration can do to act on Trump's shrill and knee-jerk reaction to this tragedy.

Rather, we are practically rational agents primarily because we can assess the various impulses to act by appeal to a "certain general principle" or law – this law consisting, in Reid's view, in the rational principles of action.

In Type II individuals (N = 60), this rostellum was practically absent and just visible as a small, thin margin, apparently unable to act as a physical barrier (Fig.  3A′, B′, C′, D′, E′, F′, G′, H′).

However, how to practically monitor IBD patients, which objective measures to follow, at what time-points and whether to act upon results in asymptomatic patients are all questions that remain disputed.