7 sentences with 'practical'
Example sentences and phrases with the word practical and other words derived from it.
• « After Sorensen wrestled for some time with the practical difficulties of that idea, Henry presented him with a new suggestion: split the top of the block from side to side. »
• « The most practical way to avoid obesity is to consume the right percentages of calories and carbohydrates and to avoid chocolates, sweets and alcohol. »
• « Combining the practical study of languages, history, mathematics and rhetoric (among other subjects) with the cultivation of an ethical code that humanistics traced back to the Greeks, humanist education ultimately created a curriculum aimed at creating well-rounded, virtuous individuals. »
• « Thus, for practical reasons, the subject of 'history' as a field of study begins with the invention of writing, something that began with the first civilisation itself, that of the Fertile Crescent. »
• « The king could, in theory, requisition anything, mobilise anyone and generally exercise total control, although practical limits were respected by the administration. »
• « In Plato's 'The Republic' he wrote of an imaginary polis in which political leaders were raised from childhood to become 'philosopher-kings', combining practical knowledge with a deep understanding of intellectual concepts. »