Now, under the stimulus bill, the government offered a subsidy, because they realized that there are so many people losing their jobs that that's just not practical.

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But these days the economy, the global economy is so interconnected that that's just not a practical solution.

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That's a practical programme - not a fantasy - but relevant, necessary, deliverable, real.

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But it's just not practical, it's not possible, it's not safe for them to do that.

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The two companies were implicitly backed by the U.S. government, which in practical terms meant that they would not be allowed to fail.

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Senators, Russians and allied leaders who insist that the U.S. must not depart from the ABM Treaty understand full well the practical effect of this arrangement.

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It disagrees that the practical Sikh response to the downtrodden did not match the Sikh faith's core beliefs of equality.

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With the Tories gripped by ideological struggle over the prospect of British membership of the single European currency, many businessmen feel more comfortable with Mr Blair's stated aim (which matched John Major's, but not that of many of his Conservative colleagues) of treating euro-membership as a practical decision to be taken on economic grounds.

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It's a career that has given her not only a sweeping overview of the American judicial system, but a practical understanding of how the law works in the everyday lives of the American people.

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