Most people believe in the long run, there is no practical reason for newspapers to survive.

大多数人相信，从长远来看，报纸没有可以生存下去的实际理由。

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My sole reason for keeping it around was based on a hypothetical ‘what if’ rather than a practical, qualitative reason.

我保持它的唯一原因是基于一种假设，而不是一个实际的，定性的原因。

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But there is a practical reason: it is relatively easy to test for the presence of non-compliance, but much harder to test for compliance other than it being the lack of non-compliance.

但是存在一个实际的理由：测试违规行为相对容易，但是不同于缺少违规行为，测试遵循要难得多。

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The natural laws for Hobbes are not divine commands or ordinances, he says, but they are rules of practical reason figured out by us as the optimal means of securing our well-being.

对霍布斯来说，自然法不是神圣的法令,或者条例，但这些是,我们发现的实践理性的法则,就像一种最佳的方式保护我们的幸福生活。

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Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

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This is really not the time for us to smack the Palestinians in the face for no practical reason.

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There are such vivid things that it was a way of meeting people who otherwise I never could have met for the practical reason of their mortality.

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For Gingrich too there is a practical reason for waiting.

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