So what I try to tell people is that, for Barack, these issues are not abstract.
And I've been very explicit about how it should be paid for, not abstract, not rhetoric, very, very explicit.
We are making this America's national mission: improving our schools not in unrealistic ways, not in abstract ways, not in pie-in-the-sky ways -- in concrete ways we are putting our resources behind the kinds of reforms that are going to make a difference.
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This is not an abstract, philosophical, academic point, but a strategic purpose of great practical significance.
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The content problem is not an abstract one either, it is actively causing users to leave the site.
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We also know, Mr. President, for you and for your fellow countrymen, nuclear security is not some abstract concept.
This is not something I read in a briefing book. (Laughter.) This is not some abstract idea for us.
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The threat of catastrophe is for real - not an abstract scenario.
By pointing out where science protrudes most visibly into the world, Mr Pohl's aim is to demonstrate that it is not some abstract activity, but is instead ubiquitous.
Again, this not an abstract political fight.
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This is not an abstract exercise.
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Leadership and far-sightedness are not general, abstract qualities, but specific to particular tasks and fields and times.
If Goldman looks at patents issued to most software products companies they are very specific and not at all abstract.
The petitions that catch fire on Change.org are almost always tied to human drama and not about tackling abstract challenges such as health care or immigration reform.
One suspects their presence is self-congratulatory, a reminder that Buffalo has opened its doors to many innovators, not only the Abstract Expressionist painters with whom the Albright-Knox is closely associated.
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And I think that's something actually that Justice Kennedy strives for that he wants the jurisprudence of the court not to be abstract - legal rules or policies that are separate from the human condition.
But part of it is starting with awareness and making sure that people see the faces of these families -- through you, you know, so that it's not just some abstract story, but there's a real kid and real families behind it.
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Beyond that, QE and related policies were not created in the abstract but for certain specific historic reasons.
Unfortunately in the real world of Washington politics, decisions are sometimes not made in the abstract, non-emotional world of numbers and calculations.
And this was so short a time ago, for the woman lawyer in the abstract has not yet attained her majority, that the novelty of her very existence has scarcely begun to wear off, and the newspapers publish and republish little floating items about women lawyers along with those of the latest sea-serpent .
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Let them see with their own eyes, and not only through aggregated, abstract data.
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The Left is defined in the abstract and does not draw any distinction between the social democracies of the moderate left and the authoritarian elected governments of the Bolivarian Alliance.
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If the London mascot designers decide not to go down the abstract route they will have plenty of animals to choose from, says Renata Kowalik, conservation programmes manager at the London Wildlife Trust.
Russia therefore has quite good relations with some countries that are democratic, and quite bad relations with some countries that are autocratic: it determines its policies on a case by case basis not through reference to some abstract ideological construct.
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Not long ago it was common to write about modern art, particularly abstract art, as if the work, but not the painter, existed.
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