If practical, development of a quantum computer could create a supercomputer with a billion-fold increase in performance.
He also announced some useful if belated practical steps to arouse interest.
There's no mention in either document of the Tanaiste needing to sign off on such a decision, even if in practical terms it's impossible to imagine London pushing ahead with such a move without at least some form of tacit approval from Dublin.
In Latin America, Lula was seen as the more charismatic, if not more practical leader of South America.
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She follows a "doability doctrine": America should use its military power where it can to achieve practical if sometimes limited goals.
For others, it means decamping to The Carlyle Hotel or East Hampton, where things seem a bit more posh, if not more practical.
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For the publishers, if Google gives them anything at all, it creates a practical precedent, if not a legal precedent, that no one has the right to scan this material without their consent.
And if that were not practical enough, others are looking at the role snowflakes have in catalysing the transformation of ozone into normal oxygen.
Whatever the practical consequences if the American veto is sustained, the move marks a stark escalation of the American campaign to hobble the international court.
To the contrary, they are certain to have the effect of making such a turn-around unlikely until it is still harder, if not as a practical matter impossible, to effect.
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Theory must always be serviceable for policy, even if its echoes went beyond practical requirements.
If you start adding up practical attributes, the Evoque starts to wilt a bit.
This legislation is designed to make it exceedingly difficult -- if not, as a practical matter, impossible -- to impose export controls on strategically sensitive technologies.
Milgram's project fits one element of the Arnold model: fund promising research for relatively small amounts millions, if that can be deemed small with the implicit commitment to spend substantially more if the results point to practical solutions.
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"This study starts to look at some of the questions about decisions that physicians and families are making every day, treating loved ones in moderate to severe, what should be treating with, should they stop treatment, should they continue and if so how long, practical, " says Snyder.
These are concepts of great practical significance, even if they sound abstract and platitudinous, because they underlie one's sense of right and moral self-confidence.
It would have no practical impact, and if he were to--if Commissioner Selig were to start striking records from the record book, you know, this is a problem.
During my first year of teaching, I sometimes wondered if the knowledge would ever have any practical use.
If Macdonald can translate this vision into practical solutions that boost customer and employee loyalty for Maritz clients, his goals may well be within reach.
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The banks could not, as a practical matter, raise capital if they revealed the extent of their problem loans (or, if they could do so, the cost would go way up).
He said the reasons were firstly practical, because for example if a person's entitlement to vote was based on Scotland being their birthplace a whole new electoral register would be needed.
The important thing was that they should be elegant, even if at the time they did not seem practical.
If the intelligence is sound, then the practical side of seizing these weapons stockpiles, and destroying the long range missiles, might not be insurmountable.
If ever there were an age that needed a practical President, it is ours.
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Since ancient Egypt, if not long before, hats have served the practical (protection against heat and cold) and the symbolic (religious function, military rank, social status).
Even if it turns out to not have too many practical applications, just the ability to see quantum mechanics work with the human eye is breathtaking enough.
His solution, born of a practical and oddly uncomplaining despair (as if he knew that something like this would happen), is to camp out on the front lawn, surrounded by the flotsam of his belongings.
Even without eventual practical use, it would be good if the Higgs boson had a cultural impact, by moving into the language as a metaphor, just as "light year, " "Darwinian, " "subconscious" and "in the DNA" have done.
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