In theory and in practice democracies can foster tyrannical majorities, thus making the understanding of natural rights so crucial.
Sounds good, as an auditory learner might say--except that there's little scientific evidence to support learning style, in theory or in practice.
This plays into a current trend: though there is currently wide support against sexually harassing behaviour in theory, in practice many people find it easy to sympathise with the accused.
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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Consumers are keen to while away their Sundays in superstores, in theory as well as in practice.
But while EU leaders love harmonisation in theory, in practice progress has been very sticky.
But the distinction between the two approaches is, at the moment, greater in theory than in practice.
The lessons they taught were deceptively simple in theory, but hard in practice.
It sets a measure applicable in theory, and increasingly in practice, to all things, inviting us to monetize everything.
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Role-based access control sounds fine in theory but is difficult in practice.
And the second part of the book is devoted to India's speciality: ideas that have prevailed in theory, but not in practice, leaving reformers with nothing more to say, but plenty still to do.
This ambiguity also frustrates American trade officials, who consider European labelling laws, both in theory and in their rather confused practice, to be a technical barrier to trade.
What sounds straightforward in theory is complicated in practice.
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This is fine in theory, but in practice it often distorts the market for the remaining privately owned banks by keeping too many banks in business and by allowing nationalised banks with the benefit of a government guarantee to borrow more cheaply.
Mechner said that in theory it should, but in practice execution data included a huge amount of fundamental statistical noise.
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It is, in short, a place that seems to work in practice but not in theory.
Great in theory, not great in practice when applied uniformly to all types of assets.
While this, in theory, can be audited, in practice the knowledge to do so is unlikely to be possessed by the auditor.
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That sounds good in theory but is hard to spot in practice.
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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 new partnership will continue some of the work of INET, which was founded in 2009 in response to the global financial crisis, promoting changes in economy theory and practice.
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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Budget cuts are more popular with voters in theory than practice.
Outsourcing works better in theory than practice.
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Chile's experience suggests that even if they were desirable in theory, capital controls may be difficult to enforce in practice.
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.
Oddly, however, Mr Mundell very strongly believes that Europe is, in practice if not in theory, an optimal currency area.
In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary, and that's crazy.
"What looks good in theory is, in fact, pretty complicated to pull off in practice, " says Niel Golightly, a vice president for Ford of Europe.
While our cities in theory competed with one another, they in practice had special roles to play.
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