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They offer practical suggestions for healthy eating.

I need practical advice about how to choose the right computer.

Practical experience of broadcasting and journalism would be valuable.

A hundred years or so after the invention of the microscope, Carolus Linnaeus devised a simple and practical system for classifying living things, according to the ranks of categorization still in use today——class, order, family and so on.

Nonetheless, modern architects did not simply employ these new materials in a strictly practical fashion—they consciously exploited their aesthetic possibilities.

Helium-3 is an isotope of helium that has tremendous potential for use in practical energy applications.

Well, that idea is fine for canvas painting or other small works, but a practical reality of fresco painting in the Renaissance was collaboration.

So any fresco commissioned to an artist was, for practical reasons, commissioned to a whole team.

Basic Montessori equipment can be divided into a number of major subject areas such as practical life, mathematics and what is called sensorial.

But actually, creativity comes through learning to play the violin, using the object for the purpose that was intended and practical life exercises stress that.

As Gutenberg, apart from getting the key idea, had to solve a lot of practical problems, including imposing paper and ink into the process and the actual printing itself, for which he adapted the screw press used by winemakers, it is amazing that his first product does not look at all rudimentary.

But really the instrument we know today was the result of a continuing development that started for our practical purposes in the 1920s.

This is not just an aesthetic consideration but also a practical one.

I mean, I can see some practical problems with the ladder example.

Geothermal energy becomes available in a practical form when underground heat is transferred by water that is heated as it passes through a subsurface region of hot rocks (a heat reservoir) that may be hundreds or thousands of feet deep.

Certain institutional and practical norms had become established as well.

A secondary group entails two or more people who are involved in an impersonal relationship and have come together for a specific, practical purpose.

From a practical aspect this protected the figures against breakage and psychologically gives the images a sense of strength and power, usually enhanced by a supporting back pillar.

Well, if it means that the design of a building should be based on the needs of the people who use it, then, well, the architect has to be very practical to think about the people who actually be living in the house or working in the office building, whatever.

That would be of very practical value for a future moon base for astronauts.

Architecture is the art and science of designing structures that organize and enclose space for practical and symbolic purposes.

A Cameroon draw means that victory is a practical certainty.

Our system is the most practical way of preventing crime.

Although the causes of cancer are being uncovered, we do not yet have any practical way to prevent it.

It wouldn't be practical to ask that all foreign reporters leave Baghdad.

How long will it be before nuclear fusion becomes practical?

You were always so practical, Maria.

We are practical people who judge ideas and policies by results.

He lacked any of the practical common sense essential in management.

What a practical mind you have.

Putting all emotion aside for a minute, let's be practical.

How could she be so practical when he'd just told her something so shattering?

Uniforms should be cheap and practical.

Our clothes are lightweight, fashionable, and practical for holidays.

He's very practical and does all the repairs himself.

I'm not at all practical.

We've got our practicals at the beginning of June.

We've got a chemistry practical on Tuesday morning.