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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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.
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.
It was taught as a special subject quite distinct from the theory and practice of architecture.
On May 10th the Central Party School, a hatchery for Beijing's top cadres, will start a pow-wow on the theory and practice of deliberative democracy.
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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The principal one is that, when considering all of the participants' overall costs of reducing emissions, economic theory and now business practice teaches us that a carbon trading approach is the least cost way of meeting the environmental objective.
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.
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.
If nurses get the care of older people right by applying the theory to practice, paying attention to feeding them and providing them with fluids, washing and cleaning them when they are unable to wash themselves, communicating with them and encouraging them through caring, kindness and compassion then caring for other patients will come naturally.
First, I think the study informs us that very few investors actually practice the time-honored theory of buy and hold.
It was called Communication Studies (where one studies the theory, not the practice, of communications).
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As with so much in the infant field of chronotherapy, theory lags practice.
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Swaniker put his theory about the importance of networking into practice.
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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But it will be some time before this grand vision becomes reality, and in the meantime practice is pulling worryingly ahead of theory.
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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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.
While this may sound fine in theory, in practice these requirements can conflict with the right of people to come together in free association.
Moreover, many governments that provide medical care for their citizens (including America, if Barack Obama's health proposals become law) are beginning to demand that drugs firms prove the effectiveness of expensive new pills in practice as well as in theory.
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.
In theory and in practice democracies can foster tyrannical majorities, thus making the understanding of natural rights so crucial.
In market theory the "selfishness" of the economic agent - in this case the GP practice - drives the efficiency of the system by forcing other economic agents to compete to provide the most efficient service.
The logic behind long-only equity, that risky assets deserve higher growth potential and straight market exposure will provide acceptable returns, works well in the ivory tower of modern portfolio theory, but often takes decades to deliver results in practice.
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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In theory there is a single market, but in practice only 13 of the European Union's 27 member states approve of online gambling.
The supposed merits of buy-backs are complicated by what looks like a conflict between theory and practice.
The theory behind this practice is that a brokerage firm invests its time and money training raw globs of clay into becoming high-powered, professional stockbrokers.
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It was often remarked that the doctors who attended the least fancy schools (i.e. those that emphasized practice over theory) actually arrived on the wards the most prepared to take care of patients, while those who benefited from what was presumably an enlightened and intellectually enriched curriculum often stumbled initially when they had to take care of an actual person.
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