Mr Chen's team would like to set theological disputes aside in order to deal with more practical matters.
Yet in practical matters Mormonism seems well adapted to the modern world, for Mormons are, by many measures, disproportionately successful.
Concentrating on such practical matters would also enable it to leave the really difficult questions about a new constitutional settlement for a later date.
Unfortunately, getting in the way are some practical matters.
But since Schmidt is a rumored finalist to be the next Secretary of Commerce, will he have interest in focusing on the nitty gritty practical matters Obama needs in a business world liaison?
This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.
Mr Miller, whose title has been modified to chief operating officer, will handle all practical matters such as building new schools and providing the necessary supplies (the lack of lavatory paper in some schools had become a symbol of the district's mismanagement).
Earlier talks dealt with practical but trivial matters, such as how to deal with lost mail.
Emotional payoffs must be practical, even in matters of the heart.
But as a practical matter, what really matters is getting that money out there to the troops.
Which matters, in practical terms, because it has already been agreed that Holyrood will be invited to deliver a further verdict upon the Bill before it gets final clearance at Westminster in the autumn.
David Cameron insists what matters is not the theatre, though, but a swift inquiry which can recommend practical changes in the law to be implemented within months.
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