As the son of a Protestant theologian, I happen to be deeply versed in the theory and practice of wearing hair shirts.
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It was taught as a special subject quite distinct from the theory and practice of architecture.
It reflects the contemporary intellectual preference in higher education for integrating the theory and practice of a discipline, and for reducing the divisions between vocational and academic qualifications.
In which a small number of elders hold the power to rate performers of their arcane craft, trained as they have been in various schools of theory and practice.
In the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, author Nitin Nohria points to research findings that 60% of women felt excluded from networking opportunities compared with 4% of men.
As with so much in the infant field of chronotherapy, theory lags 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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This asserts the right of human beings in ways that are now entrenched in the theory and (most of the time) the practice of liberal democracy.
The principal one is that, when considering all of the participants' overall costs of reducing emissions, economic theory and now business practice teaches us that a carbon trading approach is the least cost way of meeting the environmental objective.
It was called Communication Studies (where one studies the theory, not the practice, of communications).
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Swaniker put his theory about the importance of networking into practice.
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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First, I think the study informs us that very few investors actually practice the time-honored theory of buy and hold.
But it will be some time before this grand vision becomes reality, and in the meantime practice is pulling worryingly ahead of theory.
The time has come for the NMC to compel those running courses to stipulate how much time should be dedicated to the care of the elderly, in practice and theory.
If nurses get the care of older people right by applying the theory to practice, paying attention to feeding them and providing them with fluids, washing and cleaning them when they are unable to wash themselves, communicating with them and encouraging them through caring, kindness and compassion then caring for other patients will come naturally.
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.
This guide and the related website are intended as a tool kit to help teachers and trainers, NGOs and youth groups to help raise awareness of Sustainable Consumption and empower youth to put theory into practice.
Great in theory, not great in practice when applied uniformly to all types of assets.
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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In theory there is a single market, but in practice only 13 of the European Union's 27 member states approve of online gambling.
Moreover, many governments that provide medical care for their citizens (including America, if Barack Obama's health proposals become law) are beginning to demand that drugs firms prove the effectiveness of expensive new pills in practice as well as in theory.
Mechner said that in theory it should, but in practice execution data included a huge amount of fundamental statistical noise.
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In 2012, however, four German researchers followed their passion for the study of passion and published a paper in a journal called Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
The logic behind long-only equity, that risky assets deserve higher growth potential and straight market exposure will provide acceptable returns, works well in the ivory tower of modern portfolio theory, but often takes decades to deliver results in practice.
And a series of recent studies on birds has shown that this theory is apparently translated into practice.
In theory and in practice democracies can foster tyrannical majorities, thus making the understanding of natural rights so crucial.
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