But while EU leaders love harmonisation in theory, in practice progress has been very sticky.
But the distinction between the two approaches is, at the moment, greater in theory than in practice.
In theory and in practice democracies can foster tyrannical majorities, thus making the understanding of natural rights so crucial.
Sounds good, as an auditory learner might say--except that there's little scientific evidence to support learning style, in theory or in practice.
This plays into a current trend: though there is currently wide support against sexually harassing behaviour in theory, in practice many people find it easy to sympathise with the accused.
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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What sounds straightforward in theory is complicated in practice.
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This is fine in theory, but in practice it often distorts the market for the remaining privately owned banks by keeping too many banks in business and by allowing nationalised banks with the benefit of a government guarantee to borrow more cheaply.
Great in theory, not great in practice when applied uniformly to all types of assets.
Consumers are keen to while away their Sundays in superstores, in theory as well as in practice.
The lessons they taught were deceptively simple in theory, but hard 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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Role-based access control sounds fine in theory but is difficult in practice.
And the second part of the book is devoted to India's speciality: ideas that have prevailed in theory, but not in practice, leaving reformers with nothing more to say, but plenty still to do.
Mechner said that in theory it should, but in practice execution data included a huge amount of fundamental statistical noise.
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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.
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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Budget cuts are more popular with voters in theory than practice.
Outsourcing works better in theory than practice.
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While this, in theory, can be audited, in practice the knowledge to do so is unlikely to be possessed by the auditor.
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That sounds good in theory but is hard to spot in practice.
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The revolution of 1789 in theory made the people sovereign yet in practice left power in the hands of an elite ruling in the people's name.
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It is, in short, a place that seems to work in practice but not in theory.
Oddly, however, Mr Mundell very strongly believes that Europe is, in practice if not in theory, an optimal currency area.
While our cities in theory competed with one another, they in practice had special roles to play.
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History is littered with examples, such as the Seiko Ruputer wristwatch computer, that sounded great in theory but turned out to be lemons in practice.
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.
Here I explain my reservations as clearly as I can about libertarianism in practice vs. libertarianism in theory.
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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What works in practice and what works in theory are often a world apart, and political incentives distort even the best laid plans.
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