Sentence examples for wrong in theory from inspiring English sources

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Harmful in consequence, wrong in theory, understating the constitutional value.

As for the production, there's nothing wrong in theory with a stark "Faust" in tension with Gounod's lush, sentimental score.

Take the neverending stream of toys pushing domesticity: there's nothing wrong in theory with something like a play kitchen – my daughter has one, and we love to cook as a family – but commercials make clear they're selling gender roles as much as they are toys.

There's a strong need for such training programs, and there's nothing wrong in theory with the idea of having businesses run them, but in practice it has created a big problem for students and taxpayers.

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How many times do we have to show that this notion is wrong both in theory and empirically?

It not only doesn't fit with what happens in practice; it's wrong even in theory.

So the claim that fiscal responsibility requires immediate spending cuts to offset the cost of disaster relief is just wrong, in both theory and practice.

"History has shown that the Cultural Revolution was utterly wrong, in both theory and practice," argued the People's Daily article, which was headlined "Learning lessons from history in order to better move forward".

The most extreme possibility suggested by the new observations is that there is something crucially wrong in a theory called inflation, scientists' leading picture of what happened in the earliest moments of the Big Bang.

This was a key factor in me getting just one question wrong in my theory and getting just four minors in my driving test.

There is nothing wrong with this, in theory, but countries with highly professional armies, like Australia, do not generally live next door to tormented places like East Timor.

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