"If this implies any practical steps taken against Israel, it will make it impossible for any Israeli government to take risks for the sake of peace and that will be detrimental for the peace process,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

By the way, if we begin by talking about poetic and practical language, we're beginning where the Russian formalists began.

谈到诗化语言和实用语言，我们就和俄国的形式主义者站到了同一个起点。

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If you want to really understand this in a practical sense, it's more as though these guys are hired hands.

用更现代点的观点来解读,他们更像是雇农

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If practical, development of a quantum computer could create a supercomputer with a billion-fold increase in performance.

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He also announced some useful if belated practical steps to arouse interest.

ECONOMIST: Britain and EMU

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.

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