I would like to add one more practical reform to those mentioned by Russell Kirk ( Dec. 16 ).

Apparently the feeling is that anything more would be involvement in technical abstrusenesses of possible pedantic interest but of no visible significance in practical affairs.

Linguists have not always been more enlightened than `` practical people '' and sometimes have insisted on incredibly trivial points while neglecting things of much greater significance.

Hidden behind Hegelian abstractions were more practical reasons for a changing jurisprudence.

These theoretical relationships are more clearly illustrated in Fig. 7 and their sum can be seen to correlate in form with practical measurements made with the Hesiometer as illustrated in the first portion of Fig. 5 for the cutting mechanism.

Ideally these schools should be so located that one or more should be in the area where demand for practical courses is at the highest.

These metals were also used to strengthen each other, for more practical purposes.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

Patrick Wormald's explanation is that Alfred's law code should be understood not as a legal manual, but as an ideological manifesto of kingship, " designed more for symbolic impact than for practical direction.

In 1745, a year after his death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus to facilitate more practical measurement.

As Fay resumes work, Detmold's real new assistant arrives, and Fay is horrified to realize that she is even more practical, rigid and disbelieving than Fay herself, and the new nurse marches the Cookies off to the next town to disprove the new miracle.

A more modest " daily solar " design is very practical.

This makes the bush bean more practical for commercial production.

Many of the instances that occur in practical applications can be solved much more quickly.

As mentioned briefly above, though the problem is NP-complete, many practical instances can be solved much more quickly.

In the community, intravenous administration is not practical and so rectal diazepam or ( more recently ) buccal midazolam are used, with a preference for midazolam as its administration is easier and more socially acceptable.

Their inherent focus on practical implementation of technology has tended to keep them oriented more towards incremental-level redesigns and reconfigurations, as opposed to revolutionary research & development or ideas that would be many years from clinical adoption ; however, there is a growing effort to expand this time-horizon over which clinical engineers can influence the trajectory of biomedical innovation.

Nonetheless, as a practical matter, no civil law legislature can ever address the full spectrum of factual possibilities in the breadth, depth and detail of the case law of the common law courts of even a smaller jurisdiction, and that deeper, more complete body of law provides additional predictability that promotes commerce.

Calcium has four stable isotopes (< sup > 40 </ sup > Ca, < sup > 42 </ sup > Ca, < sup > 43 </ sup > Ca and < sup > 44 </ sup > Ca ), plus two more isotopes (< sup > 46 </ sup > Ca and < sup > 48 </ sup > Ca ) that have such long half-lives that for all practical purposes they also can be considered stable.

Another possible explanation for the origins of obligatory celibacy revolves around more practical reason, " the need to avoid claims on church property by priests ' offspring ".

A more speculative, more complex " chip factory " was specified to produce the computer and electronic systems, but the designers also said that it might prove practical to ship the chips from Earth as if they were " vitamins.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

" Amarant " is a more correct, albeit archaic form, chiefly used in poetry.

The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.

Another of his tunes, " Matchbox Blues ", was recorded more than 30 years later by The Beatles, albeit in a rockabilly version credited to Carl Perkins, who himself did not credit Jefferson on his 1955 recording.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously.

And yet, the connection of all Christians is also asserted, albeit in a way that defenders of this view usually decline, often intentionally, to elaborate more clearly or consistently.

His sincere, albeit often unsuccessful attempts to build a more powerful nation have been noted by scholars such as Jonathan Fenby and Rana Mitter.

However, due to Eisenhower's persistence, the pivotal supply port at Antwerp was successfully, albeit belatedly, opened in late 1944, and victory became a more distinct probability.

The Convention is drafted in broad terms, in a similar ( albeit more modern ) manner to the English Bill of Rights, the American Bill of Rights, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the first part of the German Basic law.

But in measuring a wavy fractal curve such as the one in Figure 2, one would never find a small enough straight segment to conform to the curve, because the wavy pattern would always re-appear, albeit at a smaller size, essentially pulling a little more of the tape measure into the total length measured each time one attempted to fit it tighter and tighter to the curve.

Tiberius's land reform commission continued distributing lands, albeit much slower than Tiberius had envisaged, as Senators were able to eliminate more of its supporters by legal means.

In hindsight, Cairo was a much more difficult project than Microsoft had anticipated and, as a result, NT and Chicago would not be unified until Windows XP — albeit Windows 2000, oriented to business, had already unified most of the system ’ s bolts and gears, it was XP that was sold to home consumers like Windows 95 and came to be viewed as the final unified OS.

In the majority of vertebrates, the mesonephros persists into the adult, albeit usually fused with the more advanced metanephros ; only in amniotes is the mesonephros restricted to the embryo.

However, these old buses are slowly being replaced by a more modern fleet, albeit still customised in the tradition of the older buses.

Neon is monatomic, making it lighter than the molecules of diatomic nitrogen and oxygen which form the bulk of Earth's atmosphere ; a balloon filled with neon will rise in air, albeit more slowly than a helium balloon.

The new millennium has seen them return to a more rock and roll roots sound, albeit with modern production.

Some sociologists have also pointed out, with reference to the USA and elsewhere, that forms of racism have in many instances mutated from more blatant expressions hereof into more covert kinds ( albeit that blatant forms of hatred and discrimination still endure ).

In a more bittersweet bit of irony, Roberto would enter the Hall, albeit posthumously, alongside both his boyhood hero, Monte Irvin, and one of his most respected adversaries, Warren Spahn ( called by Clemente the toughest left-handed pitcher he'd ever faced, outside of Sandy Koufax ).

Hence, they participated in many of the major public religious roles that non-levitical men could, albeit less often and on a somewhat smaller and generally more discreet scale.

Martok views marriage as another form of combat, albeit one disguised and more subtle than most (" The Changing Face of Evil ").

This way an inexpensive fleet of torpedo boats could defend against much larger and more expensive fleets, albeit only in the coastal areas to which their small size and limited fuel load restricted them.

The current millennium is perhaps more popularly ( albeit inaccurately ) thought of as beginning and ending a year earlier, thus starting at the beginning of 1000 and finishing at the end of 1999.

However, it is certain that the political structure of the Etruscan culture was similar to, albeit more aristocratic than, Magna Graecia in the south.