In theory and in practice democracies can foster tyrannical majorities, thus making the understanding of natural rights so crucial.
Ignoring what Shariahis both in theory and in practice and its intimate connection to Islamic terror and holy war against the non-Muslim world amounts to corporate recklessness.
It may back medical prescription of heroin, but wholesale legalisation is another matter misguided in theory and impossible in practice.
It sets a measure applicable in theory, and increasingly in practice, to all things, inviting us to monetize everything.
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Here are a few points explaining exactly how the minimum wage hurts the poor both in theory and practice.
This ambiguity also frustrates American trade officials, who consider European labelling laws, both in theory and in their rather confused practice, to be a technical barrier to trade.
That is not bad for a risk-free asset with a maturity of one to six years in theory, and often only a few months in practice.
What works in practice and what works in theory are often a world apart, and political incentives distort even the best laid plans.
In 2012, however, four German researchers followed their passion for the study of passion and published a paper in a journal called Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
What's more, senior Whitehall officials have long worried that IDS's plan for a new Universal Credit could go the way of the health reforms - ie they sound good in theory but may prove bureaucratic, costly and unpopular in practice.
As the son of a Protestant theologian, I happen to be deeply versed in the theory and practice of wearing hair shirts.
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The new partnership will continue some of the work of INET, which was founded in 2009 in response to the global financial crisis, promoting changes in economy theory and practice.
The time has come for the NMC to compel those running courses to stipulate how much time should be dedicated to the care of the elderly, in practice and theory.
In which a small number of elders hold the power to rate performers of their arcane craft, trained as they have been in various schools of theory and practice.
In the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, author Nitin Nohria points to research findings that 60% of women felt excluded from networking opportunities compared with 4% of men.
Another former U.K. rate-setter and arch-dove, David Blanchflower, has pointed out that even if nominal-GDP targeting was a good idea in theory, it is a bad idea in practice because nominal GDP is hard to measure and prone to large revisions.
It reflects the contemporary intellectual preference in higher education for integrating the theory and practice of a discipline, and for reducing the divisions between vocational and academic qualifications.
In theory it could work quite well, but in practice very few games achieve that perfect balance and only a handful achieve a good balance.
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Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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"Everyone agreed that in theory but obviously when it comes to practice and it comes to themselves people felt miffed I imagine, " she said.
This asserts the right of human beings in ways that are now entrenched in the theory and (most of the time) the practice of liberal democracy.
But it will be some time before this grand vision becomes reality, and in the meantime practice is pulling worryingly ahead of theory.
And while in theory there is bipartisan agreement on moving on balanced budgets, in practice, this responsibility for the future is often overwhelmed by the politics of the moment.
And even if the force were ready in practice as well as in theory, would Europe's politicians be ready for it?
And we don't base this on theory, but on what is now happening in practice.
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He and his colleagues (and also Dr Parkin, in a separate experiment) have persuaded practice to match theory.
As with most things in the corporate world, there is too much process built upon theory and not nearly enough practice built on experience.
The principle and the practice of his big-drink ban fly in the face of too much legal theory to survive another minute before another judge.
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Although the theory that describes the interaction of quarks and gluons is on a firm conceptual footing, it is so complicated in practice that it can take years to make a single calculation of something like the shape of a proton even using the most powerful supercomputers.
While these ideas may be correct in theory, in practice the consequence of Bush's adoption of the neoconservative worldview was the empowerment of populist and popular jihadists and Iranian allies throughout the Middle East at the expense of US allies.
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