Labour acted as if social disadvantage was largely a practical problem.

It helps not to start taking moral standpoints and judging one another, but to see it as a practical problem to work through.

They will cut tight corners where possible, so the practical problem becomes exacerbated with increased damage to plants and muddy lawns.

They create the practical problem of how we live together in spite of and across our disagreement.

Most big advances have occurred because there was a pressing need to solve a practical problem in everyday life, or arose out of areas of public interest and concern.

By 1979 coronary angioplasty was a practical reality.

You have a gift for turning bright ideas into practical reality.

The court emphasised that, 'as a matter of practical reality, capacity to consent may evaporate well before a complainant becomes unconscious'.

But the practical reality may be more irksome and less fruitful.

Those who already accept the commonsense middle position will find little here that will help them to understand the conflicting, everyday practical reality they face.

We want to consider the issues-to explore what it means to be human-in a practical sense.

Both are working a lot in the capital at the moment, so living there made practical sense.

It's not a guide in the practical sense but it's perfect for dipping in and out of for inspiration.

Knowing that, you'll feel more comfortable considering ideas and activities that are uninteresting and make little practical sense.

Moving ahead in a practical sense may not be an option just yet, so take all the time you need to think things through properly.

Let's illustrate the practical significance of this question with an example.

To some, though, the grandeur of the structure suggests more than practical significance.

His sole obligation of any practical significance was to restore the assets immediately.

Even the mines dug to extract flints, using antler tools, are grouped in sites of more than purely practical significance.

Military experts played down the practical significance of the war games between the world's two most populous nations, saying that the games were too short and involved too few soldiers.

They replied promptly with a practical suggestion, which did not work.

I'm not sure it's a practical suggestion, even if it were one we wanted to take up.

As a practical suggestion, it stitched its own invalidity into the statement.

I don't regard that as a practical suggestion.

At the end of each consultation, he reported his 360-degree view, analysis and list of practical suggestions for congregational health and growth.

Trusting teachers, in practical terms, changes the structure of decisionmaking.

How, in practical terms, do you become homeless?

In practical terms, this improved hydration by 56 per cent.

In practical terms, only half (51 per cent) say that their bank makes managing money simple.

In practical terms, it was impossible to see why a company should not be able to treat a gift as a contribution to its capital.

Substitute the word 'shovel' (another practical tool) for 'money' in each of the sentences on your list.

They are now looking to scale up the material so that it could be a practical tool in environmental clean-ups.

The key was to regard psychiatry on a level with things like diet and hydration, as another practical tool that might help to make you a marginally better sportsperson.

Those who did sought to possess a practical tool, not a totem of individual freedom.

These, presumably, are intended to turn the book into a practical tool.

They said they had started to go 'off track' at their previous schools because there had been too little practical training.

Qualified pharmacists need a pharmacy degree and one year's practical training and start on 33,000.

A practical training tool for witnessing and for training others.

In 2005 the 33-year-old former actor set up his own business supplying actors to businesses that want to provide practical training for staff.

And there was a lack of expert teachers and specialist equipment for practical training.

It means practical wisdom, a sense of yourself and the world that comes naturally to you.

I must show the modern skeptic the practical wisdom of biblical principles, particularly those principles that appear rigid or intolerant.

You are perceptive and possess a high level of common sense and practical wisdom.

Never overburdened by dogma and belief, it paraded its practical wisdom and capacity to do what was necessary in the pursuit of power.

Again, one questions the practical wisdom of this.